European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 8, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9strikes delay classes in 4 states by the associated press thousands of children got an extended summer vacation tuesday because of teacher strikes in Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and Washington state. In Washington at least 20,000 pupils were affected by a strike in suburban Seattle. Elsewhere Union teachers in Bremerton planned to strike wednesday if a contract offer was rejected in a vote tuesday night. Outside Seattle in Federal Way teachers voted to strike monday about 12 hours before classes were scheduled to begin. About 700 members voted supporting the walkout by a 3-to-l margin said the president of the Federal Way education association Danielle Leaverton. State mediators vied without Success to get both sides Back to the bargaining table. Superintendent Thomas Vander Ark sad the District might hire Susti Lute teachers if the  resolved promptly. School violence student discipline and classroom overcrowding were issues in both of the Washington districts. In Illinois More than 11,000 children remained out of school tuesday after striking teachers in Edwardsville rejected a proposed contract and negotiators in Collinsville tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting. Edwardsville teachers overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer monday that a Union official called insulting nearly 350 teachers have been on strike since aug. 24, keeping 6,000 pupils from their schoolroom. Teachers have demanded More Money and smaller classes. The Collinsville teachers strike entered its fifth Day tuesday. The Union refused to resume negotiations calling on the District to approve an offer already on the table. A both sides appear to have locked into their positions and right now it seems like a difficult situation a said Jack Renfro Collinsville school District superintendent. In the Youngstown Ohio area a strike byl75 teach ers against the 3,060-Pupil Niles school District entered its second week. Talks on pay and other issues broke off without an agreement monday. In Pennsylvania 70 teachers in the Sharpsville area school District went on strike tuesday the firsts had used Day of school. Classes for the districts 1,276 pupils were cancelled. Teachers have been working without a contract since july 1993, they want a 5.5 percent pay raise. The school boards Best offer was a 4 percent increase. Teachers at roman Catholic schools in the Philadelphia area voted 415-311 tuesday to approve a three year contract rather than strike a strike by the 900-member association of Catholic teachers would have affected 23,000 pupils in 22 City and four suburban High schools in the archdiocese of Philadelphia. Elsewhere in the United states teachers in several districts threatened or considered starting strikes today the first Day of classes for them. Dover Del. A youngsters Riding Delaware school buses this year might think twice about fighting running and Yelling behind the Drivers pack. The camera will be watching. When classes begin today Delaware officials say their state will become the nations first to have video cameras on school buses statewide. Some individual school districts in other states including Virginia and Washington already have cameras on their buses. A. Delaware conducted a Pilot project in one District two years ago and expanded it to seven District last year. This year the state spent $185,500 to buy 80 cameras and other equipment for All 19 districts. Some districts also purchased additional cameras on their own. You on Delaware will not put cameras on each of its 1,368 school buses which carry about 87 percent of its approximately 105,000 Public school pupils. But Gary Wear the transportation supervisor for the Cape he Lopen school District noted that just having a a Black boxy housing for a camera on a bus helped last year when the District participated in the Pilot project because the camera youngsters  Tell if there was a camera in the Box or not. A /. Washington state conducted a camera Pilot project during the 1991-92 school year said Don Carnahan Pupil transportation director for the Public instruction office in Olympia. In Virginia up to 50 of the states 132 school districts Nave been using cameras in buses since the Early 1990s.slaying suspect mourned As average 11-year-old staying in the Pink Danielle Kriegsman is vowing to keep her hair Pink despite her school s order to Wear a wig or return to her natural hair color. The 13-year-old was suspended from the eighth Grade in new Milford conn., last week. Chicago a police say Robert Sandifer was a gang member with a rap Sheet nearly As Long As he was tall. His Mother Calls him a an average 11-year-old.�?� about 25 friends and relatives gathered for a candlelight Vigil in Sandiferd a Honor tuesday night. They came together at the Home of his grandmother to remember the boy they knew As a a Yummy because he loved cookies so much. He was to be buried wednesday. Sandifer a suspect in the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl was killed execution style last week. Two teen age Brothers Are charged in his death. Authorities say the Brothers were in the same gang As Sandifer and kilted Sandifer him to get police off the gangs Trail. Sandifer was charged with 20 different felonies at the time of his death. His Mother Lorina Sandifer who has acknowledged her own drug addiction said she had tried to keep the boy out of gangs. A a in a not this real evil person a she said. A a he san average 11-year-old. Maybe he just got hooked up with the wrong kids. He did t know no better. I tried to talk to  i a r. A it a a a a <4 k ki1/ a. 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Despite pressure from parents to get classes under Way the school Board s president Linda Moody retreated from a threat to defy a judges order by opening All City schools next monday a three Days late a including those with serious fire code violations. Moody described her remarks about opening All schools whether they pass fire inspections As a a contingency  the Board of education voted monday to delay the opening of All schools to provide More time for necessary repairs and to avoid the confusion of having some buildings open and others closed. Superior court judge Kaye Christian told City officials in june that schools would not open for the fall semester unless some 1,800 potentially life threatening fire code violations were corrected. The violations she cited included broken doors unlighted exits and defective fire alarms. Last week the judge began a school by school analysis to determine which were Safe for classes. But As of tuesday 39 schools still had not been cleared. 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