Teacher Strike Cancels School Day for 26,000
Classrooms across Arkansas’ largest school district were closed Friday, as more than 1,200 teachers walked off their jobs.
Negotiators for the Classroom Teachers Assn. left the headquarters of the 26,000-pupil school district after bargaining failed to meet their demand for higher pay, union officials said.
It was the first teachers’ strike in Arkansas history, and state Atty. Gen. Steve Clark had said that a walkout would constitute criminal obstruction of a government operation. School district officials said that no further talks were scheduled, and that schools would be in session Monday, with or without the strikers.
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