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Oaklanders: Do you support the strike? The contract imposition? | The Education Report

Oaklanders: Do you support the strike? The contract imposition? | The Education Report

Oaklanders: Do you support the strike? The contract imposition?

By Katy Murphy
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 11:23 am in OEA, Tony Smith, union contract.
Teachers make picket signs Thursday for strike. Photo by Ray Chavez/Tribune staff
At a news conference yesterday morning, Gary Yee placed the teacher contract imposition in the context of the district’s painful takeover history, Tony Smith said he wanted to start over and OEA executive director Ward Rountree said that was a terrible way to do it. (You can find a story about the whole situation here.)
We posted reader polls on the strike and the contract imposition, if you care to vote. Oh, and the Tribune ran an editorial saying raises for teachers would be “nice,” but that the district can’t afford them.