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Striking teachers and the Bellevue School District reached a tentative contract agreement Friday evening. If teachers approve the offer in a vote Sunday, they will be back in school Monday morning, union and region officials before-mentioned.

“We’re sensitive very good about the provisions of the contract,” said Eva Collins, assistant superintendent of the school district. “We’re expecting it [the suffrage] will go well.”

Bellevue Education Association President Michele Miller called the agreement a very large relief.

Union leaders said terms of the agreement won’t be released until members are briefed then they encounter at 5 p.m. Sunday at Sammamish High School in Bellevue.

“We just want to let it all be up to the members at this point. It’s their contract, it’s their settlement,” before-mentioned concurrence spokesman Dale Folkerts.

After announcing the agreement, some members of the bargaining committees, though they seemed exhausted, were singing to themselves, smiling and snapping their fingers.

The district’s 1,200 teachers went steady sound Sept. 2, the first scheduled day of teach.

Before the announcement Friday, district spokeswoman Ann Oxrieder said the district had accepted the teachers’ proposal on the use of the common curriculum, and that it would acknowledge teachers to change daily lesson plans in the absence of prior approval, undivided of the strike’s most contentious issues. The design, she said, was posted on the district’s Web site, http://www.bsd405.org/.

“The one best equipped to meet the needs of the kids is the undivided who is with them every day,” said Stephen Miller, a middle-school history teacher. He added that he would begin teaching about presidential elections, somebody not authorized in the common curriculum.

Though the agreed-upon pay increase was not publicized, Oxrieder before-mentioned the district had increased its hire offer. The district’s latest offer was 5 percent over the three-year draw together. Teachers had been asking for 5 percent over two years. This year, the teachers will also get a 5.1 percent cost-of-living stated quantity from the state. Friday afternoon, the district related it had made its final offer.

The school district initially offered teachers 3 percent in wage increases over the three-year contract, but raised the offer to 4.5 percent last week, saying the increase was contingent without interruption voter approval of a gather in the third year of the contract.

As the dash dragged into its second week, the School Board met to consider legal action to order the teachers hindmost to class. About 800 community members attended a special provision meeting Wednesday night, and many urged the district to not seek an injunction, saying it would estrange the community and disrupt the ongoing negotiations.

Parents and students also urged the sum of two units parties to negotiate around the clock and bring the dispute to an extremity.

Lynn Thompson: 206-464-8305 or lthompson@seattletimes.com. Noelene Clark: 206-464-2321 or nclark@seattletimes.com