As the LAUSD strike drags on it is abundantly clear that the only way to bring an end to the chaos is to fire the Superintendent.
Who “Taught” Your LAUSD Student Last Week?
Teachers are professionals that are trained to handle the many needs of their students. What about the people taking over during the strike?
Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering
In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]
Kids First?
“[If there is a strike] these students’ health and safety would be in jeopardy.They could get hurt, hurt themselves, or hurt others.” – Exhibit A in LAUSD Court Filing With their teachers set to walk out of their classrooms, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) needs bodies. In order to get the upper hand […]
Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When?
If current and past members of the LAUSD School Board have called for lower class sizes, why are they battling their union on the issue?
As Strike Looms, LAUSD Special Education Practices Come Into Focus
With District leaders openly hostile towards the needs of students in special education classes, can the union extract essential changes?
LAUSD Increases Salary Offer, Teachers Hold Out for Students
Salary: 6% on-schedule raise, including 3% retroactive for 2017-18, plus 3% raise for 2018-19” – LAUSD The LAUSD has already signed contracts with their other major unions that “included raises totaling about 6%.” It was, therefore, unclear why the District’s initial offer to the teachers was to only raise their salaries by 2%. This seemed […]
Supporting Parents and Students
“We stand with our teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), in calling for a real investment in our neighborhood public schools, so that all students have an equal opportunity.” – Northridge East Neighborhood Council The Northridge East Neighborhood Council (NENC) is one of 99 Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles. These Councils […]
What My Students Wrote in a Free Write About the Strike
The Friday before the strike was anticipated to possibly start here in Chicago. I asked my students the simple question at the end of a quiz, “Should your teachers go on strike?” Here is a sampling of their responses. This was a free write so I just typed what they had written. “I Support my […]
Chicago Teachers Strike: Why I'm On Strike & What I'm Telling My Family and Friends
As the strike makes national news I am finding along with many teachers that many people are weighing in on the strike who really have no idea what is going on and are basing their opinions off a 2 minute news clip. Here are the talking points and explanation I will share with my family. […]