The Mount Diablo Unified School District, the largest school system in Contra Costa County, has reached a new contract with teachers calling for a 2.3% salary increase retroactive to July 1. Further pay increases were negotiated for 2026-27 and 2027-28, along with fully paid Kaiser Permanente health benefits as part of the CalPERS Health Program beginning Jan. 1, 2026, the school district said Friday night. The three-year collective bargaining agreement covers teachers in the Mount Diablo Education Association who serve more than 29,000 students at 50 school sites in cities including Concord, Pleasant Hill and parts of Martinez, Pittsburg and Walnut Creek. The tentative agreement updates class size guidelines, expands personal necessity leave options, and sets no cap on prior years of qualifying experience for initial placement on the salary schedule, the district said in a press release. The tentative agreement goes before the education association’s members for ratification and then to the school district’s board for approval. Both sides have agreed to recommend ratification and adoption of the full agreement. “This agreement continues our commitment to student learning and achievement, fiscal responsibility, positive labor relations, and long-term stability, while striving to offer competitive compensation and a positive working environment for all employees,” the district said in a press release.
MDUSD, Teachers Reach Tentative 3-Year Contract With Pay Raise, Fully Paid Health Benefits
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Increase seems appropriate – they have great benefits and are among the top 5% paid of the country for public schools already… 3 yr contract seems good too.
Well of course they did.
I asked AI the following question, the answer follows.
What is the literacy rate for students who attend schools in the Mount Diablo School District in Contra Costa County California?
ChatGPT said:
I was unable to locate a specific “literacy rate” (i.e., % of students who are fully literate) for the Mt. Diablo Unified School District in Contra Costa County.
Here’s closely-related data that may help:
Great job getting a raise for doing 50% of the work.
There is only so much an individual teacher can do when their class size is over 30.
Statistically conservative estimates are that 1 in 10 has a learning disability. 1 in 20 is autistic. 1 in 8 is not fluent in English.
Discipline issues are out of control – usually stemming from a lack of consequence.
Society’s collective attention span has shortened due to cell phones and tech, leaving a generation that was born too late to realized they’ve been dumbed down.
In short, public schools are a mess and there isn’t an easy answer.
The answer for our family was private schools K-12 for our kids and now grandkids as well. Yea ok its upwards of 30k+/year but well worth it. Private schools don’t put up with BS and your kids are better ratio to teachers.
Yet somehow some teachers always find time to push their social agendas. Not all, but many. And this is always at the expense of teaching actual subjects. Discipline issues are out of control, but this also stems from the way that teachers address it. Instead of kicking bad kids out, we have to coddle them in the schools. THAT is not a parenting issue (the behavior may be, but not the school’s response).
You’re right. There is a pervasive social agenda our schools. When Obama was President, his posters were in many classrooms, teachers wore his shirts and buttons.
What would happen if a teacher wore a Trump shirt? Formal discipline or ostracism.
We need to call out these social agendas and double standards wherever we see them.
This is insane yet there are still people giving the teachers a pat on the back or a pass, no more tenure and make it merit based! We need to get the best possible outcome and most opportunity for our children and just because we entrust our children for the timeframe they are in school learning remember teachers you work for us and NO they are not YOUR children!!!
Of course. It’s not as if unionized public employees actually have to “earn” raises.
https://www.greatschools.org/california/concord/mt.-diablo-unified-school-district/
After this gift of money and benefits, there should not be any more charity given to any person in our education system until our student’s test scores are above 80%. We need to stop spending money that rewards failure. Our kids deserve better.
Yes! But why stop there. Teachers should work for free until test scores improve!
Why sthop their; kids chuldn’t go home till thay’re aible to reed & right!
Oh you are so right!
I wish they would post the salaries and how many “hours” a day the teachers have to work for each stage of income.
Not to mention the literacy rates, the math proficiency rates… are atrocious.
Yet the teachers have plenty of time to push their social agendas.
It’s not the teachers fault, it’s students from broken homes, divorced parents and so on. Put the blame on parents where it belongs.
Then why do the same kids do so much better in Private Schools?
Stop saying “It’s not my fault”, it is.
Because it’s not the same kids.
Could you shill any harder!?!
A lot of people were a lot more supportive of teachers until we noticed that way too many teachers, and their unions, are engaged in political indoctrination and childhood sexual grooming.
Yes, we can start by banning every flag from schools but two – that of our nation and that of our state.
This should be the policy of all government buildings.