Teachers working without a contract since August; Trustees working in dark with gap in actual budget. In sparring press releases, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District and Valley of the Moon Teachers’ Association made public their disagreements and failure to break a stalemate. In a press release dated December 10 and addressed to the Sonoma Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) Community, the District announced that no agreement had been reached between the District and Valley of the Moon Teachers Association (VMTA) after three rounds of impasse mediation with the assigned State Mediator. The process is now released to fact finding, a process in which a three-person panel reviews the arguments and proposals of both sides before issuing nonbinding recommendations. If that does not produce an agreement, the District can impose its last best offer, and VMTA could maintain the right to strike.