The District 205 Board of Education has reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with the Galesburg Education Association.
The contract is pending ratification by the Board of Education and the GEA.
The GEA represents around 500 teachers and educational support staff in District 205 and the Galesburg/ Knox County SPED Coop
Details are scarce at the moment, but if this deal is ratified it will have come to a much swifter conclusion than the last two contract negotiations between 205 and the GEA.
Negotiations in 2014 broke down to the point where educators went on strike for the first two weeks of the school year.
Even the 2019 negotiations, which were considerably more amicable, didn’t end until August.
WGIL will provide more details as they become available.
