LOS ANGELES TIMES October 8, 1968

40 Teachers Asks for Transfers

After Reinstatement of Castro

Lincoln High School Faculty Member Will Return to Job Monday; Reassignments Won't Take effect Until Spring

By Jack McCurdy

Times Education Writer

Forty of the 170 teachers at Lincoln High School have requested transfers to other schools in the Los Angeles district, apparently because of the Board of Education's decision to allow teacher Sal Castro to return to Lincoln.

Teachers are not required to state their reasons for requesting transfers in the city school system. But the requests were all made Friday, the day after the board voted to reinstate Castro at Lincoln High, school officials said Monday.

Not effective Until Spring

The transfers, if approved, would not be effective until the spring semester. Castro is expected to return to the school next Monday after a week in Washington as an educational consultant to the U.S. Justice Department.

Whether the 40 teachers go through with the transfers, schools officials said, may depend largely upon openings at other high schools I the system and upon the desirability of available positions.

Castro was reinstated by the board after being relieved of his teaching duties and reassigned as a curriculum consultant away from the school.

The reassignment followed his conspiracy indictment by the County Grand Jury for allegedly participating in the walkout of Mexican-American studetns at four East Side high schools last March.

Meanwhile, board member J. C. Chambers attempted Thursday to have the board rescind its action restoring Castro's teaching job.

He also proposed a board rule requiring the board chambers to be cleared one hour after the conclusion of board meetings, which would ban sit-ins such as those last week to protest Castro's removal.

The move to rescind failed for lack of a seconding motion. Chambers then gave notice that he would introduce both proposals at a later meeting.