Teachers and Mayor Have Agreed to Contract

Sources say at the Mayor and teachers' union have come to a contract agreement! Could it be? Could the possibility of going into an election without settling the teachers' union contract have finally forced the Mayor to agree to a contract? Or did the United Federation of Teachers realize they had to deal now, or else have the Bloomberg administration spin them into a dizzied frenzy, though in our non-expert opinion, Gothamist thinks many people would side with the teachers, versus the Mayor. It'll be interesting to learn what the contracts are now, given today's NY Post story about how veteran teachers seem to transfer out of low-performing schools to go to "better" ones.