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The Service Employees International Union Local 99 union has been in negotiations with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for almost a year as workers seek a 30 percent pay rise and ...
More than 30,000 public-school teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) went on strike from January 14 to 22, 2019. [1] Protesting low pay, large class sizes, inadequate support staffs of nurses and librarians, and the proliferation of charter schools, the teachers went on strike for the first time in the district in 30 years.
About 640,000 students arriving for classes at some 900 campuses in the Los Angeles County School District were met by teachers carrying picket signs. Los Angeles teachers strike for higher pay ...
L.A. Unified union leaders call Supt. Alberto Carvalho a liar and a coward. Carvalho says harm to students, workers has been minimized in difficult budget times.
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is the main trade union for certified, non-administrative staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The union was incorporated in 1970 by the merger between the ( AFT -local) Los Angeles Teachers Alliance and the ( NEA -local) Classroom Teachers of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times acknowledged that labor statutes protecting teachers may not be the most significant contributors to the educational difficulties encountered by California's students. Nonetheless, the Times Editorial Board concluded that "California’s tenure and seniority laws do tend to protect the worst teachers at the expense of ...
Schools across the country are announcing teacher and staff layoffs as districts brace for the end of a pandemic aid package that delivered the largest one-time federal investment in K-12 education.
Finally, teachers in high need areas, such as secondary math and special education, are often less experienced due to the difficulty of recruiting these positions, and districts who adhere strictly to seniority based systems for layoffs face the added burden of recruiting teachers in these areas. [6] In Los Angeles, it was noted that of the ...