Darien Public Schools

Board of Ed OKs Biggest Item in the Town Budgets for Each of the Next Three Years

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Under the next labor union agreement between Darien teachers and the school district, which hasn’t received final town approval, the town’s total bill for teachers’ wages would rise 3.4 percent in each of the next three fiscal years, from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020. The first vote to approve a Darien teachers labor union contract already has been taken by the Board of Education at its Nov. 9 meeting. The contract also will need approval from the town Board of Finance and Representative Town Meeting. A lot of information about the new contract, along with an administrators’ union contract passed together with it (and which would start at the same time but end a year later, on June 30, 2021), has not yet been released by either the Board of Education or Darien Public Schools officials, including estimates of either the total cost of the increases or the overall total cost of the salaries and benefits in the contracts.