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Another View: Superintendent broke contract with teachers - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

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Another View: Superintendent broke contract with teachers

Published: Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 2E

Erik Knudson, second vice president of the Sacramento City Teachers Association, is responding to the Aug. 16 editorial, "Flap over schedules only hurts schools," which states: "This petty squabble over the calendar just weeks before school starts dims" the hopes of a "new spirit of cooperation."

Sacramento City Unified School District, the school board, and the Sacramento City Teachers Association all agreed to a two-year contract last year that included $4.8 million in givebacks from teacher paychecks to help the district, once again, balance its books. To ensure some planning stability we also agreed to a calendar for that same duration.

What happened? Superintendent Jonathan Raymond chose to ignore part of the contract and



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