Burlington teachers union, school board end strike

BURLINGTON — After a full day of mediated talks, the school board and teachers union announced late Tuesday that it was officially a school night.

The two sides reached a preliminary agreement for a new contract, bringing an end to a four-day strike and months of fraught negotiations that had failed to produce a compromise.

School board members, district officials and union teachers fanned out on the front steps of the South Union Street law offices where the mediation took place in a display of unity following months of division and a weeks long war of words.

Stephanie Seguino, school board vice chair and leader of board’s bargaining team, said negotiations have been “tremendously difficult for our district community, and we are ready to move forward in a way that is collaborative, builds bridges and heals old wounds.”

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