After two days on strike, the Columbus Education Association (CEA) and Columbus City Schools will return to the bargaining table this afternoon. More than 94 percent of the CEA’s nearly 4,500 members, consisting of teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, psychologists, and other education professionals employed by the public school system in Columbus, Ohio, voted on Sunday to reject the School Board’s last final offer, which included a three percent salary increase at each step of the salary, a $2,000 retention bonus, an increase in the number of school nurses and psychologists, and an additional planning day for teachers, to go on strike for the first time in almost fifty years.
