SACRAMENTO - Fed up with the district's rhetoric and frustrated at decisions that leave students and Sacramento schools behind, more than 1,000 Sacramento teachers and other education employees will demonstrate outside the new Sacramento City Unified School District administration building Monday night. The rally, sponsored by the Sacramento City Teachers Association, SEIU Local 790, Teamsters Local 228 and the Classified Supervisor's Association, will start at 5:00 p.m. After the event, several teachers will march to the local school board meeting and take their message directly to board members.
"The district's top priorities should be our students and our classrooms - not district administration," says Tom Rogers, president of the Sacramento City Teachers Association. "How can the school district justify stocking the administration building with brand new equipment and supplies, but our students and teachers can't get enough books for their classrooms? That's not the right message to send to our kids or our community."
Despite receiving new funding from the state, SCUSD has offered teachers no salary increase and has proposed cutting health benefits.
- WHAT: Sacramento teachers and other school district employees hold rally to demand better schools and a fair contract
- WHEN: Monday, October 21, 2002
- TIME: 5:00 p.m.
- WHERE: Sacramento Unified School District Office
5735 47th Ave. (Corner of Stockton Blvd. And 47th Ave.)