It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances, Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work.
“We would be our classrooms preparing for the day, which is where we would rather be,” she says.
But instead, she’s out in front of Oakland’s Cleveland Elementary School with her fellow teachers -- not working. They’re waiting seven minutes until 8:15am exactly. Since February, teachers have been protesting low pay by working from only from 8:15 to 3pm -- the minimum hours required by their contract. It’s called work-to-rule. And it means things that parents expect, like student evaluations, are not making their way home. They are sitting unfinished in baskets...
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