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    In Oklahoma schools, bosses are helping teachers go on strike

    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 2018 5 minutes

    Earlier this month, Melissa Abdo visited a class of future schoolteachers - education majors at Oklahoma State University.

    "How many of you are considering teaching in Oklahoma?" she asked them.

    Of the roughly 20 students in the class, a single hand went into the air.

    "I don't think Oklahoma wants me," one student told Abdo, a board member for Jenks Public Schools in suburban Tulsa.

    Abdo said this week that she was embarrassed for Oklahoma, where teachers haven't had an across-the-board raise in 10 years, leaving them with some of the lowest pay in the nation.

    So she and members of other school boards across the state have taken a highly unusual step: They're helping their workers go on strike.

    When teachers - or for that matter, workers in any field - strike, it's usually a

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