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Executive director Thomas Hollister of the Compton Education Association (CEA) criticized the Compton Unified School District?s state appointed trustee, Randolph E. Ward, for pressing the district?s negotiators to drop a cost-of-living adjustment from a contract proposal passed by the school board. The CEA---whose 1,700 members have been working without a contract for almost a year , and are seeking a five percent raise---alleges that Mr. Ward told district negotiators not to offer a two percent cost-of-living adjustment that the school board had passed along with a two percent raise. Although the state returned day-to-day control of the district to the school board in December after six years of direct supervision, Mr. Ward retains final say over the district?s financial decisions.