Accord on 3-Year Contract Averts Strike in Cleveland

Cleveland teachers and administrators averted a strike last week with an 11th-hour agreement on a tentative contract.

The three-year contract approved by bargainers on Sept. 15 ended the union's plans to strike after midnight that evening.

That agreement, however, is only the first of many hurdles the 72,000-student district must clear in order to solve its financial and management woes. Cleveland taxpayers and school officials are already looking ahead to election day, when a vote on a proposal to raise property taxes will further spell out...