Jefferson County Teachers Association is the district's largest teachers' union. Brent McKim is JCTA's president.
It will be the largest raise for JCPS teachers in over two decades.
But that didn't stop classes from happening.
Beshear wants to give every public school teacher in Kentucky a 5% raise and fund universal pre-K.
The National Education Association, citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, says there were 567,000 fewer teachers in classrooms nationwide in early 2022 compared to numbers before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louisville public school teachers will receive a 4% raise starting with the upcoming 2022-23 school year as part of a tentative agreement between their union and Kentucky's largest school district.
The boards of two labor groups representing JCPS employees – the Jefferson County Teachers Association and the Jefferson County Association of Educational Support Personnel – have voted to support such a measure, leaders told WDRB News on Friday.
Rep. Joe Fischer, R-68, of Northern Kentucky, pre-filed Bill Request 60 saying "Critical race theory is not based on facts or evidence."
The union, which has about 5,800 members, most of whom are teachers, has not weighed in on a specific date for reopening.
The concerns were published in a recent survey by the Jefferson County Teachers Association.