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Article: D.C. Teachers Union Head Calls Meeting to Sign Pact, Fails to Appear
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 5, 1992
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The D.C. school superintendent, school board president and other
board members left their building mystified last night after the
president of the teachers union failed to show up at a meeting to
sign a long-awaited contract.
What was odd, they said, is that the Washington Teachers Union
president, Jimmie Jackson, had called the meeting.
"This is the strangest thing I've ever seen," said R. David
Hall, D.C. Board of Education president, standing in the board
conference room surrounded by television cameras and reporters who
had been called to the meeting.
"This is just part of the frustration we've been going through