An Oakland, California, teachers’ union announced Saturday that a strike will begin on Feb. 21 after failing to reach an agreement with the school district over increased pay and smaller class sizes.
Oakland Educators Association (OEA) said teachers were seeking a 12 percent raise over three years to help keep educators in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), according to a Saturday press statement.
“We agree that our teachers deserve to be paid more,” OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. “It’s just a matter of how much can we pay, given our financial reality.”
The district has suffered from financial woes for awhile, however. California loaned OUSD $100 million in emergency funds — the largest at the time — after gathering a $37 million deficit in 2003. The district managed to get into a $30 million deficit in 2017, according to the Chronicle.
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7 comments:
LOLOL love it they are leaving in DROVES.
Even NY Gov cuomo is Complaining his state $ are down $2.5 billion and that rich people are leaving the state LOLOLOLOL
If I taught in Oakland, a 100 percent raise wouldn't be enough.
California spends so many BILLIONS of tax dollars housing, caring, translating, and transporting ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, they are stone cold broke and have no money left for American citizens.
That's is their political platform. How's it working, Einstein?
It's also the reason Trump will destroy, absolutely destroy, whatever brainless democrat that runs against him.
Cheer that.
Oakland is the West Coast equivalent of Baltimore. It used to be a decent working class city, but now it's mostly a ruin, with crime through the roof and public services maxed out to people who never have and never will work for a living.
The mayor of Oakland should simply stand at the border with a tin cup.
Yes, and All Seniors , some who are struggling to live,
want a 12% raise too!
Oh well , get your $$$ from that Sanctuary City you
support ......!!!! And all you blow away to Illegals !!!!!
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