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BCTF publicly releasing 4-point proposal to settle teachers' strike - Lead - CKNW - 9:30am October 20, 2005

In what it's calling an unusual move, the BC Teachers Federation is publicly releasing its proposal to settle the teachers' strike.

Reporter: It's a 4-point plan that includes class size limits for grades 4 to 12, including successful integration of special needs students, staffing ratios for specialist teachers, a 3-year agreement that includes no wage increase in the first year and reasonable wage increases in the second and third.

The BC Teachers Federation is now calling on the government to make a similar compromise.

Meetings are set with facilitator Vince Ready for later today. Pickets will remain up, however, until a resolution is reached.