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The Palo Alto Unified School District is pushing back on union proposals to increase salaries by 28% for teachers and 47% for non-teachers, according to Superintendent Don Austin. On Monday, the district presented a 2% raise for teachers next year, when the Palo Alto Educators’ Association said they had requested 13%.
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But in a statement to the Daily Post, Austin said the 13% actually equates to an 28% increase, as the district factors in other benefits and compensations. Austin said the district’s counter of 2%
How to see local Olympians Two athletes with ties to Palo Alto will compete in the Winter Olympics starting today — biathlete Joanne Reid, who will THE BIATHLON — Joanne Reid be returning for her third Olympics, and (below) of the United States Hilary Knight, who has been named capcompetes in 2022 during the tain of Team USA Women’s Hockey for women 7.5km sprint competithe 2026 Milan Cortina Games. tion in Hochfilzen, Austria. AP Knight, or “Captain America” as she’s photo. become known by fans and the press, set a U.S. women’s hockey record for most Winter Games appearances after winning gold in 2018 and three silver medals. If the 36-year-old Palo Alto native wins another medal in 2026, she’ll hold the record for the most Olympic medals women in USA women’s hockey. For Knight, the only medal she’s thinking about now is Gold. Known for helping the U.S. to gold in [See OLYPMICS, page 30]
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Association, a union for non-teachers, had presented a two-year proposal with an 11% salary increase in the first year and 8% salary increase the second. Austin says the calculation of the total ask, which includes benefits and came from its analysis of what would other compensation, will actually equal be an appropriate cost of living allow- a 47.92% increase and a cost of almost ances increase. $38 million. Meanwhile, the Palo Alto Chapter The average salary for a district for the California School Employee [See UNION, page 30]
District says requested raises would cost almost $38 million
HOCKEY CAPTAIN — Hilary Knight (above) skates to the bench to celebrate a goal against Canada during a Nov. 8, 2023 women’s hockey game in Tempe, Ariz. AP photo.
MILITARY DIALOGUE: The U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level, military-to-military dialogue for the first time in more than four years. High-level military communication was suspended in 2021, as relations between Moscow and Washington became increasingly strained ahead of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Don Austin is asking the City Council to close off where Churchill Avenue intersects with the railroad tracks after a student was hit by a Caltrain and died.
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In a letter to the council yesterday, Austin said he would support an immediate closure of the crossing, even on a temporary basis, while permanent solutions are evaluated and implemented. “We’re running out of options,” Austin said in a statement to the Daily Post. “Suicides are complex, we’re not going
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to solve that right now. What we can do is take away the lethal means.” The Caltrain crossing at Churchill Avenue and Alma Street is adjacent to Palo Alto High School, and has been the site of multiple student suicides over the past few years. On Tuesday, Sum[See XING, page 30]
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