Greater Orange News Service

Capistrano Teachers' Strike mirrors OUSD Strike 10 years ago

In 2000 OUSD teachers faced with a right wing school board staged a one day disruptive walk-out. The public plan however was for a two-day walk-out. Instead as the district geared up for a strike on Thursday, the teachers showed up to class disrupting hundreds of substitutes who had signed up to work. The next day, a Friday, the teachers did walk-out and the political fallout eventually led to the Orange Recall. Those painful episodes in Greater Orange history took years to erase. Citizen news was in its infancy and the result, though a painful one, is a Greater Orange much more in-touch with its public schools.

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