Daily brief · Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
School staff to start year without contracts
August 28, 2026
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School staff to start academic year under expired contracts
The Cambridge Education Association says roughly 1,500 district employees — teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals and other staff — will begin the school year with expired contracts after more than 17 bargaining sessions failed to produce a finalized agreement for any of the union's five bargaining units.
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