The week-long teachers strike in Los Angeles has ended.

Their union has approved a tentative deal with the district, which means they'll head back into classrooms Wednesday (January 23).

(SOUNDBITE) (English) PSYCHOLOGIST, LAURIE BERNHARD SAYING: "I know that my colleagues are really ready to go back to work." More than 30,000 LA teachers went on strike on January 14th, after two years of contract negotiations and over a year of working without one.

Tuesday's (January 22) deal meets many of the union's demands to improve classrooms, and it also gives teachers an immediate 6 percent pay raise.

LA mayor Eric Garcetti - who mediated talks- called the deal 'historic.'

(SOUNDBITE) (English) LOS ANGELES MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI SAYING: "It gets to lower class sizes, it gets to proper support staff, to community-based schools, to special ed, to adult ed, to expanded greenspace and the list goes on." The LA school board is expected to formally approve the deal at the end of the month.