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Tensions are still running high along the North Shores as two teachers unions there remain at odds with their school committees over contract negotiations. The labor disputes are turning into the longest teacher strikes in Massachusetts’ modern history, and it still looks like there’s no solution in sight for educators in Beverly and Marblehead. Educators from around the state...

Dozens of teachers lined the street outside a Beverly City Council meeting as their strike is poised to set a record for longest in recent Massachusetts history. 

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As the Beverly and Marblehead teachers strikes stretched on, a third-party mediator stepped in, while students in Gloucester returned to classes after the town’s own strike.

It’s back to class in Gloucester Monday, after 10 days of no school due to the teachers’ strike there. But educators in Beverly and Marblehead remain on strike.

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Monday marks 11 days of no school for Beverly – which ties Newton as the longest teachers strike in the state since the 1990’s.

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As two North Shore teachers strikes drag on, the one in Beverly on Monday tied a recent one in Newton as the longest in modern Massachusetts history. The Beverly strike has stretched on for 11 days, and negotiations have become increasingly contentious as students there and in Marblehead missed another day of school while, in Gloucester, the North Shore third…

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The teacher strike continued Monday in three communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Here’s the latest on the ongoing saga.

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Monday marks another day out of the classroom for students in three North Shore communities, as educators in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead return to the picket line in an ongoing strike. The teacher strikes entered their second school week amid ongoing negotiations, and schools will remain closed Tuesday. In Beverly, the teachers’ union there is expected to be in court…

School was canceled for three communities on the North Shore amid ongoing educator strikes.

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