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NATION, Page 35American NotesCALIFORNIASee You in September?
The surf was up and the video arcades were jammed last week
as hordes of kids played enforced hooky, while their teachers
continued striking in Los Angeles, the country's second largest
school district.
The teachers want a raise of 10% this year, retroactive to
July 1, 1988, and an 8% increase in each of the next two years.
They also want to be relieved of school-yard duty and given a
greater voice in running the schools. The district is offering
a 21.5% increase over three years. Unless the walkout is
resolved, it could postpone graduation for about 35,000 seniors
and delay class promotions for most of Los Angeles' 594,000
public-school students. The teachers' cause got an apparent
boost last week when Governor George Deukmejian announced that
the state had an unanticipated tax windfall of $2.5 billion, as
much as $228 million of which may eventually trickle down to the
Los Angeles Unified School District, if the state legislature
approves. No check is in the mail yet.