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District enters second week of strike over teacher salaries

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Washougal School District teachers picket outside a school board meeting at the district office in August 2018. Two years later, the district and its teachers' union were able to reach a bargaining agreement without need for mediation or arbitration for the first time in at least 10 years. (Post-Record file photo)

Washougal educators remain on strike going into what would have been the Washougal School District’s second week of the 2018-19 school year.

Teachers in that district have been picketing since Tuesday, Aug. 28, after negotiations between the district and the Washougal Association of Educators (WAE) teachers union broke down in late August.

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