'As long as it takes’: Los Angeles teachers go on strike in nation’s second-largest s

[Peter1469]

'As long as it takes’: Los Angeles teachers go on strike in nation’s second-largest system

Why isn't California not spending the money to get their school system up to snuff? They seem to want to spend on everything else, even illegals.

Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school system walked off the job Monday, heading for rain-soaked streets amid a battle with district leaders over crowded classrooms, depleted staff and the very future of Los Angeles schools.

The strike drew thousands of unionized teachers to the picket lines, where they marched in front of schools in unrelenting rain, wearing red ponchos and rain boots. The walkout affected more than 30,000 educators and 600,000 schoolchildren across the sprawling district, which encompasses 710 square miles and hundreds of K-12 schools, making it larger than many state systems.


The job action, the first teachers strike in Los Angeles in three decades, follows a year in which educators in a half-dozen GOP-controlled states walked out to demand raises and more money for schools. But this movement, taking place in the heart of deep-blue California, is no red state revolt.


Instead, it highlights an existential fight unfolding in urban school systems across the nation and in the Democratic Party: Should public classrooms be surrendered to private operators, taking students and dollars from traditional schools?

[Common]

school kids dont vote

[Peter1469]

school kids dont vote

Their parents do.

[Ransom]

Reading the article, it's clear these poor Teachers who are "long as it takes" affecting the educations of nearly 600,000 children....

The teachers had to head out into "rain-soaked" streets. My my. They marched in "unrelenting rain."

Poor union. Teachers.....without the sense to even come in out of the rain. By the way...how do LA schools rank? Can we see the results of these Teacher's unions and teachers who teach all these hundreds of thousands of school children, how do they stack up against other public school systems?

[Peter1469]

Reading the article, it's clear these poor Teachers who are "long as it takes" affecting the educations of nearly 600,000 children....

The teachers had to head out into "rain-soaked" streets. My my. They marched in "unrelenting rain."

Poor union. Teachers.....without the sense to even come in out of the rain. By the way...how do LA schools rank? Can we see the results of these Teacher's unions and teachers who teach all these hundreds of thousands of school children, how do they stack up against other public school systems?

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