No Settlement in CUSD Strike

UPDATE:  Strike will continue into Monday.

They're still talking, but nothing's been settled in the Capistrano Unified School District:

The Capistrano Unified School District and its teachers union failed to reach a settlement Saturday on Day 3 of a strike standoff that has crippled programs and activities across the 52,000-student district and pushed classroom attendance rates down to about 30 percent.

District and union bargaining teams have already met for the past three consecutive days – about 15 hours in all – even as hundreds of Capistrano teachers walked the picket lines in front of their schools Thursday and Friday. The 5-1/2 hours of talks Saturday ended about 7:30 p.m.

Negotiations are scheduled to resume Sunday afternoon; if an agreement can’t be hashed out, the district’s teachers union says teachers will return to the picket lines Monday.

“We are prepared to go back tomorrow and we’re encouraged the talks are going to go on,” union spokesman Bill Guy said Saturday. “There is some progress being made.”

I have a feeling we'll still see striking teachers on Monday.