The Educated Guess Parents can strike, too

The Educated Guess

Parents can strike, too

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Teachers in Oakland and Capistrano aren’t the only ones who can strike. Two weeks ago, most parents at a largely Hispanic elementary school kept this children home to protest the district’s failure to respond to repeated complaints about a 20-year veteran teacher.
Oakland Tribune writer and blogger Katy Murphy reported that only 20 percent of 300 students showed up on April 16 at Lazear Elementary School, where, according to a school trustee, the teacher in question had transferred to the school last fall without the principal’s permission.
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By John Fensterwald on April 26th, 2010

Capistrano strike enters 2nd week

Posted in Revenue and taxes, State Budget, pay

All eyes are on Capistrano Unified, the state’s eighth largest school district, as its teachers’ strike enters into a second week today. Negotiators reported progressover the weekend but not enough to forestall a third day of picket lines.
The Orange County Register reported that teachers and school boards have reached an impasse at 100 districts in California, but Captistrano Unified, with 52,000 students, is the only one so far facing a strike. That could change Thursday, when teachers in Oakland Unified go on a one-day strike over the no-raise contract that the school board imposed after two years of negotiations. (A fact-finder recommended a 2 percent raise in 2012, but the new superintendent, Tony Smith, indicated that the district, still repaying the state for a bailout earlier in the decade, can’t afford even that.)