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u.s. news Diahuebs 8 september 2022

Hurricane Kay heads to Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula

(AP) — Hurricane Kay tending up to 230 miles (370
gained strength in the kilometers) from the center.
Pacific Wednesday and
began lashing Mexico’s In the Atlantic, Hurricane
Baja California Peninsu- Earl strengthened northeast
la, where authorities pre- of Puerto Rico after dropping
pared by opening shelters heavy rain across the Lee-
and closing some roads. ward Islands, the U.S. and
British Virgin Islands and
Forecasters said there’s a Puerto Rico.
chance outer bands of the
big storm could bring heavy Earl was located about 460
rain — and possibly flash miles (740 kilometers) south
floods — to parts of scorched of Bermuda on Wednesday
Southern California and and was heading north at 8
southwestern Arizona Friday mph (13 kph).
night and Saturday.
Earl had maximum sustained
Kay’s maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph)
winds rose to 105 mph (165 and was expected to grow
kph), with forecasters saying into a major hurricane later
it could brush the mid por- this week while turning to-
tion of the peninsula Thurs- ward the open Atlantic.
day or Friday.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Dani-
The U.S. National Hurri- elle was kicking up high seas
cane Center in Miami said at 12 mph (19 kph). California Sur announced Forecasters expected Kay far out over the Atlantic —
Kay was centered about A hurricane warning was is- it was opening shelters for to stay offshore as it moves some 625 miles (1,005 ki-
215 miles (345 kilometers) sued for a sparsely populat- people who need to evacuate. more northward, roughly lometers) northwest of the
southwest of the southern ed stretch of the peninsula It said some creeks were al- parallel to the coast, it was an Azores.
tip of the Baja peninsula. Kay around Bahia Asuncion and ready rising and closed some expansive storm, with tropi- It had maximum sustained
was moving north-northwest the state government of Baja roads. cal storm-force winds ex- winds of 80 mph (130 kph).

Seattle teachers on strike over pay, staffing issues

(AP) — The first day of The district said in an email a difficult few years. sentially send more funding sizes and innovative paid
classes at Seattle Public to parents that it was “opti- High inflation, a national to teachers and more funding leave benefits.
Schools Wednesday was mistic the bargaining teams teacher shortage and the to students.” In Denver, marathon bar-
cancelled and teachers are will come to a positive solu- goodwill teachers earned School in the Seattle suburb gaining sessions resulted
on strike over issues that tion for students, staff, and from their pandemic-school- of Kent was supposed to start last week in tentative agree-
include pay, mental health families.” ing efforts are all bolstering Aug. 25 but has been delayed ment for an 8.7% raise for
support, and staffing ra- union efforts, said Bradley as teachers there strike. Early educators, a higher salary for
tios for special education Districts around the country Marianno, an assistant pro- Wednesday the union said it first-year teachers, and more
and multilingual students. have faced labor challenges fessor of education policy at had reached a tentative agree- money from the district for
as the pandemic put extraor- the University of Nevada, ment with the district. health insurance costs.
“No one wants to strike,” Se- dinary stress on teachers and Las Vegas.
attle Education Association students alike. An infusion Teachers in Columbus — Teachers in Minneapolis,
President Jennifer Matter of federal stimulus money “By all measures, school Ohio’s largest school district Chicago and Sacramento
said. “But SPS has given us has helped stabilize school budgets actually look pretty — last week ended a brief walked out earlier this year
no choice. We can’t go back district budgets, and teach- good right now,” Marianno strike, agreeing on a pack- before securing new con-
to the way things have been.” ers unions have sought to said. “So as teachers union age that included 4% raises, tracts.
improve pay, resources and contracts are expiring, they’re includes plans for building In Seattle, the school district
Contract talks continued. and working conditions after looking for new deals that es- improvements, reduced class has offered pay raises of an
additional 1% above the 5.5%
cost-of-living increase set by
state lawmakers — far less
than the union says it wants
— plus one-time bonuses for
certain teachers, including
$2,000 for third-year Seattle
teachers earning an English
language or dual-language
endorsement.

The union says it is opposing
the district’s efforts to elimi-
nate staffing ratios for special
education students, saying
that will mean more work for
general education teachers
and special education teach-
ers alike. The union also says
the district’s proposals would
make general education
teachers more responsible for
supporting multilingual stu-
dents.