The Anchorage Education Association, which is the NEA affiliate in Anchorage, says it has reached a tentative agreement with the Anchorage School Districts. Here are the terms.
Both bargaining teams have tentative agreed to:
•A one-year LOA (labor agreement) with a 3% wage increase and an increase of $200 a month towards health insurance. Both increases will be retroactive to the start of the school year.
• A three-year contract (2026-2029) with:
◦A 5% increase in the first year,
◦A 5% increase in the second year
◦And a 4% increase in the third year
This is a 17% wage increase over 4 years – the largest contract teachers and support staff have seen in recent memory.
In addition to the historic wage increase included in the proposed contract, the two sides have also tentatively agreed to:
Increased Health Care Contributions:
•2026-2027: $2200 a month
•2027-2028: $2300 a month
•2028-2029: $2400 a month
Expanded and Inclusive Parental Leave:
•Eight (8) weeks for all parents using their accrued sick leave.
•This is in addition to using sick leave for medical recovery from childbirth.
Additional Instructional Days:
•The District will add three (3) instructional days to the school year. These days would be available for snow or ice closures.
All other items already agreed to throughout the bargaining process go into effect Fall 2026. The entire contract will be provided to all members to review.
To approve this contract, the union must take a member ratification vote. This will be an electronic vote, but in person meetings will be held to answer member questions. Only members vote to ratify.
Per AEA bylaws, the association has 15 workdays to conduct a ratification vote. Specific details about the timeline and meeting dates will be communicated soon. Assuming the membership approves the contract, it will be sent to the Anchorage School Board to approve.
“This contract is a direct result of your hard work. You showed up to School Board meetings, to picket, to picket captain training, you wore purple every week, and you never backed down,” the union wrote to the membership. “Once again, this proves we are stronger when we are together. This is the strength of our union!”
The Anchorage Assembly will meet on Jan. 27 to approve Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s proposal to send voters a $12,000,000 special levy for the March ballot. The levy is specifically to support the school district, which is busy raising spending.
8 thoughts on “NEA wins massive increase in new agreement with Anchorage School District”
The additional three instructional days would give ASD the same number of days as the Mat-Su District. Alaska state law requires a combination of the fewest instructional days and hours of any state in the nation. The national norm is 1080 instructional hours a year, but Alaska only requires around 940 hours. Over a K – 12 education, this is equal to almost a year and a half less instruction. This is a factor in why our students are performing so poorly on national testing. I will continue to advocate for more instructional days.
Speaking only for myself and not the ASD or School Board.
Dave Donley Anchorage School Board Member and candidate to replace Felix Riveria on the Midtown Anchorage Assembly seat in the April election.
Danger! Commies at work.
Alaska is breeding and growing new idiots by the hour. Independent thinking is never required. Just a mind that is ready, willing and able for indoctrination and brainwashing.
Dave Donley knows this……..he worked in the state legislature and dealt with NEA commies, who sang “We Shall Overcome”
outside of the Capitol. Nothing has changed in the past 40 years.
How about no government schools? Or more accurately indoctrination mills with the never ending grift that uses children as a hostage shield. “It’s for the kids!” when that is among the last priorities. We need a completely different model then government schools.
When one compounds the pay increase, as I think one should, it’s a little over an 18% increase over the four years. Pretty sweet deal for no guaranteed return on the investment, no guaranteed improvement in student education.
I bet the district really fought hard against the guys who fund their election campaigns. Sure, tell me another one.
After all their hard work to make Anchorage School District what it is today, why not reward these hard working folks and their school board leaders with double this paltry amount?
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Question for Eaglexit sponsors:
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Will the new Chugach Regional Borough be stuck with this rotting albatross around its neck, or will our school system start anew -without- the NEA virus?
Fact: the greater your education, the more likely you are to vote blue.
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Yes, that actually did cause me to laugh out loud.! Maybe years bound up in the academic culture, which promotes blue perspectives over open and critical analysis and discourse, would lend some credence to that comment in today’s world. I got my degree in engineering in ’82 and continued in the academy for another seven years. Then ‘it left me.’ Greater learning occurs in the world than in the ivory towers. Those who would toil and sweat to perform their vocation once voted blue; less so today. And now, the glittering illiterati wending their through what passes for an advanced education ‘graduate’ thinking they know more than everyone else, yet they’re not qualified to flip a burger on the grill at McDonald’s.