California School Employees Ass'n v. Torrance Unified School District

INTRODUCTION

The California School Employees Association, its Torrance chapters Nos. 19 and 845, and its members Roberta Belyea and Anna San Roman (collectively the union) contend that Torrance Unified School District, its governing board, and its superintendent George Mannon (collectively the district) violated Education Code section 45203 by failing to pay regular wages to classified employees who did not work on staff development student-free days. The superior court denied the union’s petition for a writ of mandate and entered judgment for the district. We affirm.

FACTS

The material facts are undisputed. In the 2006-2007 school year, the district provided 180 days of instruction to students on Mondays through Fridays from September 7, 2006, to June 21, 2007. School was closed and no credentialed teachers worked on Saturdays, Sundays, statewide school holidays, and local school holidays designated by the district pursuant to section 37220, subdivision (a)(13), namely the days before and after Thanksgiving, winter break from December 22, 2006, to January 5, 2007, and spring break from April 9 to April 13, 2007.

Teachers were paid for working 185 days from September…