Judge Sides With District Over Money for Teachers
A judge has ruled that the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District was correct when it withheld court-ordered payments to teachers last spring.
In a ruling announced Tuesday, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Richard Silver said school district officials were within their rights when they used excess money to pay off a state loan instead.
Silver’s decision ended a three-year dispute between the teachers union and the district.
The union had claimed the district wasn’t honoring a legal settlement that obliged it to pay back $15.6 million it owes employees. The district said it had to pay off an $11-million state loan first.
The decision clarified points in the contentious settlement, whose differing interpretations had brought the weary opposing parties into court twice.
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