STILL NO AGREEMENT IN CAIRO STRIKE

Bargaining teams for the Cairo Association of Teachers and the Cairo Board of Education met Sunday night with no results.

A press release issued by CAT President Ron Newell said the board presented a six-page document prepared by its attorney. The CAT team said the document would have to be reviewed by its own attorney, and then presented as a proposal to immediately end the strike.

"We offered them four alternatives below our official bargain," high school teacher Steve Kohn said. "We told them to choose one of those four and we would be back in school tomorrow. They took five minutes to look at all of them and said they preferred to go with binding arbitration."

Dr. Elaine Bonifield, school superintendent, did not immediately return a message left on her answering machine. School board member Jay Holder declined to comment on the meeting, saying he didn't want to get into a "war of words in the newspaper."

The CAT release said teachers would return to the picket lines this morning.