The district said the raise will be paid retroactively to instructional personnel to the beginning of the school year.

Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Maria Vazquez is set to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon.

The Orange County Classroom Teachers Association ratified an agreement with Orange County Public Schools Thursday evening for new teacher salaries in the 2022-23 school year.

The Orange County Classroom Teachers Association resolved its impasse with the Orange County Public School board late Friday night, following a “long and tense process” as the union said it fought for fair treatment of teachers.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public School teachers will receive a pay increase, according to the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association. | News 6 anchors share drama stories]The union said a base salary for full-time teachers who make less than $47,500 will be brought up to at least $47,500. Any teacher who makes more than this will get a bump of 1.27 percent in their salary, according to the union. Ron DeSantis signs bill that would provide over $500 million to raise teacher salaries]Back in June, Gov. DeSantis signed a bill saying base salaries of K-12 classroom teachers would be at $47,500 for public school teachers in Florida.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Barbara Jenkins on Tuesday night announced the number of students who are switching their learning options for the second nine weeks of school. Jenkins said 15,792 students are changing from learning virtually to face-to-face and 983 are going from classrooms and switching to LaunchED. The Orange County Classroom Teachers Association posted on its Facebook page Tuesday night, asking several teachers to take action. CHANGING OPTIONS: Thousands of more OCPS students are switching to face-to-face learning for the second nine weeks. “If we have 15,000 students coming back -- usually about a third of our students ride our buses -- so that means we may have an additional 5,000 students riding buses,” Jenkins added.

Orange County Classroom Teachers Association President Wendy Doromal claims the school district's new COVID-19 database is inadequate. If you need help with the Public File, call 407-291-6000.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools launched an online dashboard to track COVID-19 cases in schools, however, Orange County Classroom Teachers Association President Wendy Doromal claims the new database is inadequate. The OCPS site lists the cases by date and allows users to click on specific schools to see when cases were reported. “We are wondering about the inaccuracy of the dashboard,” Doromal said. She says the number of COVID-19 cases on the dashboard are not adding up. At the moment it reflects the number of positive cases district-wide and a breakdown by school.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – After seven hours of negotiating on Thursday, the Orange County Classroom Teacher’s Association officially declared an impasse with Orange County Public Schools on reopening schools amid the coronavirus. “We could not reach an agreement with the District after weeks and weeks of bargaining so the union declared impasse,” Wendy Doromal, President of the CTA, said. We got email after email after email from terrified teachers.”Re-opening brick-and-mortar schools will happen, according to the school district, in alignment with the state’s emergency order. Doromal said the CTA hopes the district will waive the magistrate hearing which is what comes next after an impasse is declared. The school year in Orange County starts on Monday with virtual and LaunchEd students.

Last night, they hosted a virtual town hall, which Doromal said had 2,110 participants. She said one of the questions they asked was: Do you feel it's safe to reopen schools at full capacity this Fall? I think thats a diverse reflection of our community, and of the teachers, Doromal said. This week, Doromal said they had a bargaining meeting to present some of the concerns they've received to the district. Doromal tells News 6, Everyone wants to go back, but we want to go back when its safe.