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“Our members don’t want to strike, but by a 97.2% margin, they have made it clear they will in order to protect our students and make our classrooms the top priority,” Stockton Teachers Association President Erich Myers said in a statement.

The vote means the union’s executive board has the support of its members to call a strike if negations between the Stockton Unified School District don’t work out. The union and school board continue to talk.

The teachers are asking for a 6.5 percent increase for the 2015-2016 school year.

“Teachers have also been frustrated and angered by the district’s refusal to put the new state funds into the classroom,” the Stockton Teachers Association said in a statement.

According to the union, the 1,800 members have been bargaining since June 2015 on a contract that expired on Aug. 31, 2016.

“Through a variety of activities … the chapter has been focusing the public’s attention on the district’s mismanagement of fiscal and human resources that is undermining the education of Stockton’s students,” the union said.

KCRA 3 called the Stockton school district for a response about the vote. They did not respond by the time this story was posted.

Teachers in Yuba City went on strike Thursday after wage negotiations broke down with the Yuba City Unified School District.

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