An agreement between the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and Denver Public Schools made it possible for these educators to afford higher education, and subsequently, higher salaries.
“It didn’t make sense for me to get my master’s before. I wouldn’t get paid to get my master’s. I would get debt if I got my master’s,” said Fallon Newman, a 5th grade teacher at Munroe. Newman recently enrolled in graduate school at CU Denver. It’s higher education she’s always wanted to pursue, but couldn’t budget before the strike.