NATION : Irate Utah Teachers in 1-Day Strike
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SALT LAKE CITY — Classrooms in nearly every Utah school district are empty today as teachers stage a one-day strike to protest low pay, overcrowded classrooms and inadequate supplies.
The walkout, the largest by educators in Utah in a quarter century, involve nearly 20,000 teachers and affect 450,000 students in 800 schools, officials said.
The walkout was incited by anger over the Legislature’s decision in a special session last week to give Utahns a $38.4-million tax rebate, and not to allocate money to education from a $94-million surplus.
Teachers’ pay in Utah ranks 43rd in the nation, $4,500 less than the average national salary of $29,400, the association said.
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