{"id":29574,"date":"2018-03-27T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=29574"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:49:58","slug":"house-passes-bill-to-raise-teacher-pay-union-says-april-2-is-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/03\/27\/house-passes-bill-to-raise-teacher-pay-union-says-april-2-is-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Bill To Raise Teacher Pay, Union Says &#8220;April 2 is still on&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a late-night attempt to stave off a statewide teacher walkout, the Oklahoma House passed a series of bills that gives\u00a0teachers a $5,000 to $7,000 raise \u2013 depending on their experience.<\/p><p>The package of bills also raises pay for\u00a0school support staff and state employees, however it\u2019s not clear if the legislation \u2013 as written \u2013 is enough to keep teachers from descending on the Capitol on April 2nd.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>In a brief statement, the state\u2019s largest teachers union \u2014 the Oklahoma Education Association \u2014 said it&#8217;s is a step in the right direction, &#8220;but our ask is still our ask.&#8221;<\/p><p>The union wants a $10,000 pay raise over three years. If lawmakers don\u2019t hit the $10,000 mark this session, the union wants assurances lawmakers will increase pay over the next two years.<\/p><p>Debate on the measures now starts in the Senate.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a late-night attempt to stave off a statewide teacher walkout, the Oklahoma House passed a series of bills that gives\u00a0teachers a $5,000 to $7,000 raise \u2013 depending on their experience.The package of bills also raises pay for\u00a0school support staff and state employees, however it\u2019s not clear if the legislation \u2013 as written \u2013 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[776,758,779],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29578,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions\/29578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}