“Nobody goes into education to become rich, but we deserve what was guaranteed to us,” Cindy Sexton, president of the Teacher’s Association of Baltimore County (TABCO), told Truthout . After months of renegotiations regarding a pay-raise deal for teachers for the 2025-2026 school year, in mid-July, both TABCO and the school district reached an agreement that grants teachers less than they’d bargained for.

The initial pay raise deal was part of a three-year negotiated agreement with the Baltimore County school system last year, which would have increased teachers’ compensation by 14 percent by the 2026-2027 school year. Educators called it a monumental move that not only saved teachers unions from the bargaining table but also ensured incremental pay increases that would be accounted f

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