Fairfax County teachers are slated to get a 6% raise next year, and the county plans to pay for it by making cuts in other areas.
During a presentation to the school board on Thursday night, Superintendent Michelle Reid called the pay bump for members of the teachers union “a positive reflection and a note of our commitment, regardless of the budget transfer, to do everything we can to come as close to honoring that ratified agreement as possible.”
Virginia’s largest school district and the teachers’ union had initially agreed to a 7% raise for educators next year. But this week, the division learned it’s getting about $150 million less from the county Board of Supervisors than it had planned for…