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- <text id=89TT1413>
- <title>
- May 29, 1989: American Notes:California
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 29, 1989 China In Turmoil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 35
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- See You in September?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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