Teachers strikes will continue in three North Shore communities Tuesday, though negotiators reported some “significant progress” in contract talks Monday. “We have made such significant progress today that there was a real possibility of us coming to an agreement tonight that would have opened schools tomorrow,

District officials and union representatives in all three communities are still divided on key issues, including paid parental leave and wages for teachers and teaching assistants.

The escalation in the courts must be responded in kind by expanding the struggle. Striking teachers should demand, instead of submitting to the districts’ stalling tactics and refusal to negotiate, that their strike be spread to the 117,