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Oct 7, 2008 7:15 am US/Eastern

Montgomery's Weast Wants New Negotiations

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) ― Montgomery County School Superintendent Jerry Weast has told principals that labor contracts will have to be renegotiated because the school system can't afford scheduled pay raises in the next fiscal year.

Board of Education President Nancy Navarro said Monday that planned 5.3 percent raises for teachers are probably unrealistic.

The county is facing a projected $250 million shortfall for fiscal 2010.

Weast's chief of staff, Brian Edwards, says Weast is telling staff, union leaders and parents that next year's budget situation is dire. County teachers are in the second year of a three-year contract.

Teachers union director Tom Israel says the union has not agreed to renegotiate the contract and will not do so based on economic forecasts.

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