California requires 180 days of instruction a year, and another Northern California school district says a two-week strike last year will cost it $47 million for falling short of that.
The Oakland Unified School District has settled a week-long strike with its teachers union — a deal that will boost pay a total of $70 million. But as the administration figures out how to pay for those raises, could it also face stiff fines for the time its 34,000 students went without teachers?
At Oakland Unified, eight days of regular classes were lost, and although campuses were not officially closed, teachers were absent, and the few students who showed up were supervised by administrative staff. The Oakland Education Association, representing nearly 3,000 K-12 teachers, counselors, psychologists, social workers, speech pathologists, nurses, librarians and teacher substitutes, declined to comment.
The Sacramento schools strike was different in some ways, and the lost instruction time penalty highly unusual, Heap said. The two-week work stoppage from March 23 to April 3, 2022, involved both teachers and staff, forcing the district to close schools and lose eight days of instruction totaling approximately 2,400 minutes of learning.
Though Oakland Unified didn’t close schools, whether the experience the district offered students during the strike would satisfy the state’s instructional requirement is unclear. Few kids showed up. The district said during the strike that “schools will be open, but it will not be a typical school day as teachers are key to any instructional program.”
Fernandez also noted that the law requires that a student receives instruction from a credentialed teacher. He noted that an administrator could also satisfy the requirement if properly credentialed.
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