Teachers in Utica Community Schools, the second biggest district in the state, agreed to about $6 million in contract concessions Monday, including a salary freeze and paying more toward the cost of their own health insurance premiums, according to the Macomb Daily.
Mike Van Beek, education policy director, recently wrote this analysis of the UCS teachers' contract, a version of which appeared in the print edition of the Macomb Daily over the weekend.
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