PORT ANGELES — Teachers will walk off the job Jan. 14 to participate in a rally in Olympia.
Eighty-one percent of teachers in the Port Angeles Education Association — the Peninsula’s largest — voted Tuesday to participate in the one-day walkout.
The school district will consider Jan. 14 a “snow day” and reschedule classes in the following month.
“Our message to the legislators is, make no cuts to educational funding,” Port Angeles teacher union president Barry Burnett said Tuesday night following the vote.
“We need education funding to be stable.”
About 280 teachers from Port Angeles will participate in the protest, he said.
They will be joining other teachers from school districts throughout the state, including Port Townsend.
Teachers in Chimacum and Sequim have voted to participate, but have not worked out the details.
Cape Flattery and Quillayute Valley teachers unions have yet to decide on whether to join. Crescent, Brinnon, Queets-Clearwater and Quilcene teachers will not participate.
Burnett encourages community members, other district employees and the School Board to support teachers and attend the rally.
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