{"id":44301,"date":"2025-11-25T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44301\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:12:07","slug":"philadelphia-principals-union-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44301\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia principals union reaches tentative agreement with school district"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia\u2019s free newsletter<\/a> to keep up with news on the city\u2019s public school system.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia principals union and school district reached a tentative contract agreement late Monday that includes raises and language recognizing administrators \u201cas vital partners in the educational process.\u201d <\/p>\n

No further details about the new four-year agreement were available. <\/p>\n

The 1,000-member Commonwealth Association of School Administrators Teamsters Local 502 or CASA union represents school principals, climate workers, safety supervisors, and other administrators. They have been working without a contract since their prior four-year agreement expired in August. Union members have packed school board meetings<\/a> and a City Council hearing<\/a> in recent weeks, increasing public pressure on the district to reach a deal. <\/p>\n

But a strike threat was never on the table. A longstanding provision in nearly all of the union\u2019s prior contract agreements, as well as Pennsylvania\u2019s Act 105<\/a> law, forbade administrators from stopping work. <\/p>\n

The new tentative agreement \u201cwill provide continued stability for our administrative leaders,\u201d said CASA President Robin Cooper in a joint statement with school district Superintendent Tony Watlington late Monday night. <\/p>\n

Cooper said the agreement addresses key issues for union membership including wage equity for administrators who have several years experience in the district, across-the-board salary increases, and includes \u201ccollaborative language\u201d that \u201caffirms the dedication and innovative leadership\u201d that school principals provide, \u201crecognizing them as pivotal change agents, who drive both student and teacher success.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watlington said in the joint statement that the agreement \u201cprovides the stability, clarity, and momentum we need to continue our strong partnership with CASA and to advance our five-year strategic plan\u201d as well as \u201chonor[ing] the dedication of our CASA members and upholds our commitment to strong financial stewardship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since August, the district has settled new multi-year contracts with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers<\/a> and the School Police Association of Philadelphia, which represents school safety officers. <\/p>\n

The tentative agreement will go to union members for a vote at an unspecified time. <\/p>\n

Carly Sitrin is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Contact Carly at csitrin@chalkbeat.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia\u2019s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city\u2019s public school system.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7623,69,71,70,7625,24303],"class_list":{"0":"post-44301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-chalkbeat","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-philly","13":"tag-principals-with-the-commonwealth-association-of-school-administrators-philadelphia-public-school-district"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}