Upheaval at Northgate High, Walnut Creek

Last week over a hundred Northgate students rallied in front of their school, protesting the impending flight of up to a third of their teachers, the result of the grim contract faculty currently teach under and the state of ongoing negotiations between the Mt Diablo Unified School District and the teachers' union. According to an article in the CoCo Times, 24 teachers are expected to leave at the end of the current school year, including six of the eleven full-time math teachers. At the crux of negotiations is the degree to which the district will take on medical insurance costs (faculty having bargained away medical coverage several years ago).

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