Oakland California Teachers settled their strike on Friday against the Oakland Unified School District and executed a 4 year agreement that gives teachers an 11 % increase in salary, a 3 % bonus, and the district agreed to reduce class size, hire more support staff and increase hiring of special education teachers and counselors. Three thousand teachers, 86 schools an d36 thousand students will be affected by the new contract. Starting salary in Oakland is 46,500 dollars and average salary in the system is 63 thousand.