- National City Teachers Take Step Toward Strike
Elementary school teachers in National City have given the green light for their union to go on strike if negotiations with the National School District continue to stall. The step does not mean teachers will go on strike but it means the union is now free to call one if it wants to.
If that happens, the tiny district of roughly 5,800 elementary-schoolers would be the first school system in the county strike since this round of budget cuts have pressed schools. Budget cuts have ramped up tensions between teachers unions, superintendents and school boards all over the county, but National would be the only local district where those tensions bubbled over.
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- Parent Leader to School Board: Oh No You Didn’t
A parent leader is calling on the school board to reverse course after it decided to pull federal funding from schools with lower poverty rates to concentrate the money on the poorest schools.
David Page leads a school district advisory committee that weighs in on funding for disadvantaged schools. He argues the school board violated its own policies by not properly consulting his group on the plan and "acted in bad faith towards parents."
Page is filing an official complaint that calls on the school district attorney to tell the board to cancel its vote immediately so it can get more parent input and response before making its decision.
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