BEVERLY — A judge has ordered the Beverly Teachers Association to pay $350,000 in fines to the state over the union’s strike that lasted 12 school days in 2024.
The judgment is half of the remaining $700,000 balance the BTA owed following the strike, and is the amount the union had requested to pay, Essex County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Karp wrote in his decision Tuesday.
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