The District Office is much smaller than it was yesterday, maybe 50, 60 people, half of what we saw yesterday. But the real impact is the number of absences. District was working on the total from yesterday, and is giving that number in a half hour. Well get that to you later. At last count, 1,200 absences yesterday, four times the normal number, costing the district more than 44,000 in one day. The Teachers Union is threatening a strike. It wants a 6. 2 base pay raise. While the district says it can only give 1. 5 . Now heres where the core of the disagreement is. The teachers believe theres 25 million in new revenue. The last three years the district can use to boost their pay. But we spoke with superintendent fred bril this morning. He says thats not how it works. That money is not general fund. It must go to increasing services and programs to boost learning for students, who are English Learners and low academic performance, a group he says makes up more than 60 of the entire stud