Tentative accord by teachers, schools

Tentative accord by teachers, schools - The Boston Globe: "After more than a year of tense negotiations and a threatened one-day strike, Boston teachers and the school system last night reached a tentative contract agreement that would boost teachers' pay and require they contribute more to blunt the rising price of health insurance."

There is also this related editorial in The Globe - School contract leaves bruises and an opinion piece by David Driscoll, the Massachusetts commissioner of education -