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The teachers union will vote on the new contract later Tuesday. However the agreement means no strike and that school will start on time. No details of the tentative agreement were released.

Earlier this week the association voted to authorize a strike if the school board doesn't provide a larger teacher salary increase offer. School starts Monday. Talks continue Friday afternoon.

Books will be available while supplies last. The increase in books and distribution sites this year (40K –vs- 35K) is thanks in part to a donation of additional books from the Fife School District.

If you are teacher, a bus driver or an educator with your valid school ID and are willing to dine in with Red Robin for your dedication to our children's future and for all your hard work, they want to offer you a Double Tavern Burger and bottomless steak fries. Yum!

Officials in the Toppenish School District say a policy of arming administrators has been successful since it was implemented in the fall of 2014.

I've been a radio broadcaster since I was 18, working my way up the ladder in the broadcasting world so my knowledge of what other people earn in Yakima hasn't been something I'd readily know. I was doing research on another article and it occurred to me that may be I wasn't the only interested in how my current salary stacks up against the national average. I soon discovered that my salary in Yak

Get your elementary-age kids out of the house and on the move with a fun and FREE dance class, brought to you by two Yakima-area nonprofits: Art In Motion (AIM) and The Seasons Performance Hall. In a fresh press release, AIM's president, Noel Manderville, says that "each class will be taught by three professional teaching artists...

If you are a Seahawks fan and you have a the pleasure of going to one of their games, then you will see what they do up on their big screens. They always honor a schoolteacher hero. What a fantastic idea.

Teachers are in short supply across the state these days. In fact, there's a major shortage in the Yakima School District that's affecting education. Kirsten Fitterer, director of Community and Public Relations for the district, says local schools have 12 full-time teacher positions open and they're actively searching for people to fill those teacher posts...

A state Senate "listening tour' about education made a stop in Yakima on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of teachers, parents and students who came to voice their concerns about educational issues including teachers shortages. Teachers in the Yakima School District are getting scarcer and scarcer, which concerns local teacher Vicki Dwight: "We're losing a lot of our planning time because we're