Virginia Ransbottom, South Bend Tribune Staff Writer

Trying to reduce the impact $1 million in state budget cuts will have on school services, Plymouth teachers voted 85 to 29 to open their master contract and give back a 1 percent pay raise.

"I have not run across another teacher's association who has taken this action for the good of their peers," Superintendent Dan Tyree said.

Rescinding their raise is expected to save $89,000 in 2010 and $108,000 in 2011.