The State - News from Sept. 8, 1989

Thousands of students in Sacramento stayed away from classrooms on the third day of a teachers strike, while Teamsters truck drivers were notified that they could honor picket lines and halt deliveries to schools. Negotiators met all day Wednesday and into early Thursday, but failed to reach an agreement that would end the nation’s largest teachers’ strike. Union leaders said about 1,800 teachers, counselors, speech therapists and nurses remained away from their jobs. About 670 dissident teachers crossed picket lines along with 1,186 substitutes. More than 5,000 students in the the 47,000-pupil district were absent from class Thursday.