Jefferson County Public Schools closed for nearly two weeks in 1976 because of a strike carried out by the teachers union.
Seeking better salaries and employee benefits, the roughly 4,500 teachers represented by the Jefferson County Teachers Association began their strike at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 30, 1976. JCPS, then led by Superintendent Ernest C. Grayson, moved to close schools amid the strike.
On the first day of the strike, about 3,500 teachers went to district schools to form picket lines in frigid weather, The Courier Journal reported. Days later, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge ruled teachers could have no more than five pickets at each school in the district, an order requested by JCPS…