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Los Angeles schools, union leaders reach deal after strike

The Los Angeles Unified School District and union leaders say they have reached a deal on a new contract for workers after a strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system for three days

The Independent UK

LA Unified School District and union workers who led massive strike reach tentative agreement

LOS ANGELES — A tentative agreement has been reached to end the protracted contract dispute that shut down Los Angeles public schools for three days, officials announced Friday afternoon.

Los Angeles Times

LAUSD schools to open Friday as strike negotiations continue with Mayor Bass' mediation

LOS ANGELES — As the Los Angeles Unified School District strike that has shut down campuses moved to its conclusion Thursday afternoon, schools will reopen Friday and Mayor Karen Bass will continue working to mediate the ongoing dispute.

Los Angeles Times

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LA mayor opens City Hall to host talks to end disruptive school strike

Bass had taken a more low-profile role in trying to end walkout in America's second-largest city.

Politico

Mayor Karen Bass mediating LAUSD strike; union has not ruled out a second walkout at later date

LOS ANGELES — As a strike that has shut down Los Angeles public schools continues into a second day — and with the possibility of future walkouts a reality — Mayor Karen Bass has stepped in to talk with union and school district leaders to offer “assistance and support,” the…

Los Angeles Times

Staying out of the fight: LA’s new mayor avoids public role in school strike

The newly elected mayor has gone out of her way to avoid a public role in the bitter fight while insisting she has been actively involved behind the scenes.

Politico

Younger Angelenos have far more negative view of police than elders, poll finds

LOS ANGELES — Angelenos are split in their views of the Los Angeles Police Department, showing a sharp generational divide on how they rate the force's performance and on whether officers generally treat people of all races fairly, a new poll shows.

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LA strongly approves of Mayor Bass but is skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows

LOS ANGELES — On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be crucial for the new mayor during uphill battles ahead.

Los Angeles Times

LA mayor faces pushback as unhoused people are abruptly moved from one hotel to the next

LOS ANGELES — Four weeks ago, Mayor Karen Bass' homelessness team found a warm place indoors for Princeton Parker, a 38-year-old living in a tent on L.A.'s Westside.

Los Angeles Times

How LAUSD is scrambling to prepare for a three-day strike affecting 420,000 children

LOS ANGELES — A day after unions representing both teachers and support staff announced a three-day strike starting Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District was scrambling to prepare for the looming shutdown of 1,000 campuses — while at the same time, trying to prevent the massive walkout.

Los Angeles Times

Oscars glitz and glamour sits within heartbreaking contrast of Hollywood's homeless

On a damp and cold day in Hollywood, just hours before the Oscars kicks off, homeless people must fight through another day to a backdrop of light rigging, sound testing, curtain hanging, prop prepping - and try not to become a statistic

Daily Mirror

Erika D. Smith: The real and complicated reasons why Los Angeles still has so many RV encampments

For five nights, Melissa Grady refused to sleep.

Los Angeles Times

Man who shot 3 LAPD officers was fugitive parolee; 2 officers sent home from hospital

LOS ANGELES — Two of the three Los Angeles Police Department officers shot during a brief gunfight with a fugitive parolee this week were released from a hospital Thursday as more details emerged about the shooter, who died in the confrontation, police said.

Los Angeles Times

Biden faces a Chicago mayoral race pickle

The president appears unlikely to endorse in the Windy City’s mayoral race, even with major national implications on the line.

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Biden to embark on West Coast fundraising swing before expected election launch

The president will go to California next week. Another sign that he has an eye on 2024.

Los Angeles Times

LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department's largest employee union is looking to have officers stop responding to more than two dozen types of calls, transferring those duties to other city agencies while focusing on more serious crimes.

Politico

Democratic mayors lead course correction on psychiatric commitments

The policy, which has long enjoyed Republican support, was once anathema to the Democratic Party.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Black mayors lead America’s 4 largest cities, but their skin color is largely beside the point

It is historically significant that America’s four largest cities have Black mayors. Eric Adams of New York, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston run municipalities where 18 million of us live. They are chief executives in charge of some of the most…

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The Guardian - US

Los Angeles has already ceded too much power to the Olympic machine

The city will host the Games in 2028 and the costs – as they always do – are already mounting. The city’s mayor needs to grab back some control

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Is LA's anti-camping law getting homeless people off sidewalks and into housing? Let’s find out

Nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles City Council passed a controversial ordinance that banned camping by homeless people near schools, day-care centers and parks as well as any other locations that council members wanted to decree off-limits. All they had to do was submit a resolution with a list…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: LAPD’s broken discipline system doesn’t hold officers accountable

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and Mayor Karen Bass want to make it easier to fire or otherwise punish officers who have committed serious misconduct, and they have the right idea. Police must earn the trust of the communities they serve, yet trusting them is hard if officers can’t…

Capital & Main

In L.A., Unhoused People Say City Sweeps Leave Them Vulnerable to Hypothermia

Since January, the city has cleared nearly 600 encampments.

Los Angeles Times

He's bold, camera ready and loves Twitter, but has LA's schools chief uplifted students?

LOS ANGELES — Exhilarated, he proclaimed "I love LAUSD" in sign language during a 125-mph skydive in a Twitter video. He posed on horseback in Topanga Canyon because connecting with nature is "indispensable to the holistic education of our students." He has stood alongside Dr. Dre, George Clooney, Los Angeles…

Los Angeles Times

‘He was hunting Jews’: LA officials decry antisemitism in wake of shootings

LOS ANGELES — In a school gymnasium painted yellow and black to symbolize the star that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, Mayor Karen Bass addressed a crowd of 400 who had gathered for a town hall on antisemitic violence after the shootings of two Jewish men…

Los Angeles Times

Suspect in shootings of two Jewish men in LA is charged with federal hate crimes

LOS ANGELES — A man with a history of making antisemitic statements was charged Friday with federal hate crimes on suspicion of shooting two Jewish men as they left religious services in Los Angeles in recent days.

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