Capo strike closely watched across state

04-26-2010

By Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

Education communities across the state have watched closely as teachers in Orange County's second-largest school district walked picket lines for two days last week. But while other cash-strapped districts are dealing with the same stalled negotiations with their teachers unions, experts say the strike in the Capistrano Unified School District was largely the product of years of aggressive politicking unmatched by most districts. About 100 school districts across the state, including three in Orange County, are at impasse with their teachers unions – unable to hash out an employment contract, and with the state assigning mediators to each. That's four times the average of districts at impasse each year, according to the Sacramento-based school-finance consulting firm School Services of California. (more...)

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