{"id":231830,"date":"2026-03-23T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:41:08","slug":"twin-rivers-unified-teachers-union-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-districts-first-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231830\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Rivers Unified, teachers union reach tentative deal to end district&#8217;s first strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost two weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/twin-rivers-natomas-unified-ongoing-teacher-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twin Rivers Unified<\/a>\u00a0teachers will return to the classroom after a tentative deal was reached to end the district&#8217;s first strike, the union said on Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twin Rivers United Educators (TRUE) said the two-year agreement includes 7% raises over the two years, with additional raises for speech language pathologists, a $4,000 bonus and 100% employer-paid Kaiser HMO family health care benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our members stood strong for 12 days and fought for fully funded classrooms. With these investments we&#8217;ve made important progress in ending the staffing crisis,&#8221; said TRUE president Brittoni Ward. &#8220;This contract is a massive shift in how our district prioritizes students and classrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Educators were pushing for higher pay, fully covered health care and smaller class sizes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this agreement is not yet final and remains subject to ratification, it represents meaningful progress toward supporting our educators and maintaining a strong, stable learning environment for our students,&#8221; Twin River Unified School District said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-day strike was the first strike in the district&#8217;s history. It included teachers, students and parents rallying during the bargaining sessions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TRUSD said teachers will return to the classroom on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After almost two weeks, Twin Rivers Unified\u00a0teachers will return to the classroom after a tentative deal was reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,66422],"class_list":["post-231830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-twin-rivers-united-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}