Education

News Update

April 03, 1985 1 min read
  • Save to favorites
  • Print

Some Mississippi schools will hold classes on weekends and during the early summer to make up for the time lost during three and a half weeks of wildcat strikes by teachers.

The state’s teachers returned to work late last month after the Mississippi legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and approved a $4,400 pay raise for teachers over the next three years. (See Education Week, March 27, 1985.)

Some districts have made up for lost time by shifting their spring-break schedules. But those changes will not cover all of the strike days, which totaled 17 in some areas.

N.F. Smith, the department’s director of administration and finance, said all districts will have to provide a minimum of 175 days of school, as required by state law. He said there is currently no estimate of what the strike will cost school dis-tricts by the time those days are made up.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has intervened in a lawsuit aimed at requiring 23 suburban districts to participate in an interdistrict school-desegregation plan with the Milwaukee public schools.

The civil-rights group charged in papers filed with a federal district court on March 11 that the suburban districts’ failure to cooperate with the city district in the development of a voluntary student-transfer plan was racially motivated. It also alleged that state officials have refused to use their authority to order the consolidation of the metropolitan-area districts.

Milwaukee school officials filed suit in June 1984 seeking a mandatory interdistrict desegregation plan after suburban school officials overwhelmingly rejected the voluntary desegregation proposal six months earlier. (See Education Week, Dec. 21, 1983.)

Special-Ed. Students

A version of this article appeared in the April 03, 1985 edition of Education Week as News Update

Events

Jobs Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff
Find teaching jobs and other jobs in K-12 education at the EdWeek Top School Jobs virtual career fair.
Ed-Tech Policy Webinar Artificial Intelligence in Practice: Building a Roadmap for AI Use in Schools
AI in education: game-changer or classroom chaos? Join our webinar & learn how to navigate this evolving tech responsibly.
Education Webinar Developing and Executing Impactful Research Campaigns to Fuel Your Ed Marketing Strategy 
Develop impactful research campaigns to fuel your marketing. Join the EdWeek Research Center for a webinar with actionable take-aways for companies who sell to K-12 districts.

EdWeek Top School Jobs

Teacher Jobs
Search over ten thousand teaching jobs nationwide — elementary, middle, high school and more.
View Jobs
Principal Jobs
Find hundreds of jobs for principals, assistant principals, and other school leadership roles.
View Jobs
Administrator Jobs
Over a thousand district-level jobs: superintendents, directors, more.
View Jobs
Support Staff Jobs
Search thousands of jobs, from paraprofessionals to counselors and more.
View Jobs

Read Next

Education Briefly Stated: March 13, 2024
Here's a look at some recent Education Week articles you may have missed.
9 min read
Education Briefly Stated: February 21, 2024
Here's a look at some recent Education Week articles you may have missed.
8 min read
Education Briefly Stated: February 7, 2024
Here's a look at some recent Education Week articles you may have missed.
8 min read
Education Briefly Stated: January 31, 2024
Here's a look at some recent Education Week articles you may have missed.
9 min read