![Special education teacher Ashley Cheechoo gives a passionate speech to a crowd of educators amid cheers before the rally on Tuesday. Cheechoo said she is fighting for students and teachers across the district. “We want them [the school board], when they go into that negotiating room, to remember all of our faces,” Cheechoo said. “They want to never forget the feeling of this place, the memory of the math, the English teachers, the science, the SPED [special education], the elementary, the middle [and] the high school because we are together. We are united. Our time is right now, we are not going to wait for two more superintendents.”](https://anthromagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/5-1200x800.jpg)
Palo Alto Educators Association rally for stronger contract
Educators across the district come together in a show of solidarity before the school board meeting
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