The Region - News from June 25, 1985

A long-delayed pay raise for teachers in the Compton Community College District has been upheld by the state Supreme Court, which refused to hear an appeal. Only Justice Otto Kaus voted to grant a hearing on an appeal by the district and several officials from an appellate court ruling in favor of the Compton Community College Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Four votes are needed for a hearing by the seven-member court. The district and the union agreed in March, 1982, on a contract providing 8.5% raises for full-time teachers and 8.7% for part-timers, retroactive to July, 1981. The district first refused to pay the retroactive part of the raises, saying it had run out of money, then was blocked by the county school superintendent when it attempted to pay the sum with money from another year’s budget. The teachers sued.