Two decades later, Homer teachers' strike still sore subject
By Tim MitchellRebecca Mabry
Sunday November 12, 2006
John Dixon
The eight-month long teachers' strike in Homer, likely the longest in U.S. schools history, ended with board President Marilyn Lee, left, signing documents with outgoing union president Colleen Brodie.
Twenty years ago, the town of Homer in southeastern Champaign County suffered a devastating blow, a severe disruption for every man, woman and child living within the confines of the village and surrounding school district. Some say the town hasn't fully recovered to this day.
It wasn't a tornado, a flood or a raging fire.
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