Lompoc Federation of Teachers Local 3151 v. Lompoc Unified School District

Petitioner Lompoc Federation of Teachers, Local 3151, AFT, AFL-CIO (hereinafter “petitioner”) appeals from a judgment denying its petition for writ of mandate. The petition sought a.writ directing respondents Lompoc Unified School District and Governing Board of the Lompoc Unified School District (hereinafter “District” and “Board”) to pay teachers in grades 4, 5 and 6 (hereinafter “intermediate teachers”) an additional 1/6 of their salary, by virtue of the fact they are regularly required to spend 325 minutes per day in classroom instruction, whereas teachers in grades 1 through 3 (hereinafter “primary teachers”) and teachers in grades 7 through 12 (hereinafter “secondary teachers”) are required to spend only a total of 280 minutes per day in classroom instruction for the same salary.

At the trial the court received in evidence the District’s various rules, regulations and policy memoranda covering the salary schedule for certificated personnel, the length of the school day and teachers’ hours of service, and the daily schedules of class activities for primary and intermediate grades. Oral testimony of four witnesses was received. Declarations of three of these…