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3,880 Capo students take part in sickout

  • 04-14-2010
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By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

An estimated 3,880 students across the Capistrano Unified School District, mostly at the elementary level, stayed home Tuesday as families staged a one-day “student strike” to protest a 10.1 percent pay cut imposed on teachers by the school board. Attendance at the district’s 35 elementary campuses was down 16 percent, hovering at an 80 percent attendance rate versus the average 96 percent. Attendance at the district’s nine middle schools and six high schools, meanwhile, was only down about 1 percent below the annual average. (more...)

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