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LAUSD shakes up a highly praised academic initiative, angering parents and teachers

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who says it's too costly and not particularly effective.

Los Angeles Times

Positive repercussions from LAUSD strike

LA teachers went on strike in 2019. Four years later, they can point to the evidence of what went right

Salon

How often do teacher strikes happen?

In the past five years, public school employees have carried out 27 large-scale walkouts across the country.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #54

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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As talks with teachers heat up, LAUSD budget shows a higher ending balance, with caveats

LOS ANGELES — For months, the Los Angeles Unified School District had been saying that, despite an ending balance of $4.93 billion for the current school year, the district could be at financial risk in the future.

Los Angeles Times

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.

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Robin Abcarian: Another LA schools strike — it's hell on families, but workers had no choice

Two hours before sunrise Tuesday, what should have been an empty sidewalk outside the LAUSD Van Nuys bus yard on Roscoe Boulevard was bustling.

Los Angeles Times

LAUSD’s $4.9 Billion Question

The district’s massive cash reserve could cover the demands of striking workers. There is a way, but is there the will?

Capital & Main

LA schools' 'strike camps' promised child care relief — if parents could find them

LOS ANGELES — Second grader Kimberly Pedroza shivered outside the Los Angeles Zoo early Wednesday, her squeaky new rubber boots and thin plastic poncho barely shielding her from the sheets of chilly rain.

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: He helped LAUSD's most 'invisible' workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn't done

LOS ANGELES — Southern California's latest storm didn't dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned three-day strike.

Los Angeles Times

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

Massive strike shutters LAUSD as a sea of workers seeking higher wages rallies downtown

LOS ANGELES — The start of a massive three-day strike led by the lowest paid public school workers and supported by teachers shut down Los Angeles campuses Tuesday amid a fierce morning storm, sent parents scrambling for child care and meals and brought thousands of picketers to campuses and a…

Los Angeles Times

Teachers Union Closes L.A. Schools Yet Again

Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.

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Massive strike shutters LAUSD, canceling class for 420,000 students as picketers brave the rain

LOS ANGELES — A massive three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools’ lowest-paid employees — bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants, cafeteria workers and others — began with a rainy start Tuesday, though picketers tried to keep the energy high despite…

Capital & Main

‘We’re Doing Jobs it Should Take Three People to Do.’

LAUSD bus driver says their three-day strike is about both pay and working conditions.

Los Angeles Times

Massive strike shuts down LAUSD, leaving 420,000 students out of school

LOS ANGELES — A massive three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools’ lowest paid employees — bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and others — kicked off early Tuesday, with picketers marching through the dark, rainy morning.

The Independent UK

LA school strike: What do staff behind massive walk-out want?

Three day walk-out by Los Angeles Unified School District support staff has sent 420,000 children home

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The Independent UK

LA school strike – news: 420,000 students sent home as teachers back workers in three-day protest

Around 30,000 LA Unified School District support workers are staging a walkout over wages and working conditions

WEKU

Demonstrations, protests mark first day of LA school strike

Support staff in the nation's second-largest school district walked out over stalled contract negotiations. Teachers joined them in support.

Axios

Los Angeles schools close for 3 days as workers across 2nd largest U.S. district strike

Tens of thousands teachers and other education staff are part of the strike.

Los Angeles Times

Talks fail, LAUSD strike and school closures set for Tuesday

LOS ANGELES — Last-minute talks failed to avert a Tuesday strike that will shut down Los Angeles public schools and lead to a massive disruption in the nation’s second-largest school system.

Los Angeles Times

What? A strike? Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools

LOS ANGELES — Like most parents in the nation’s second-largest school district, Marianne Webster was shocked to learn of the massive strike set to shutter public schools across Los Angeles for three days next week.

Los Angeles Times

LA Unified files last-ditch legal challenge to stop looming strike and school closures

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified officials are mounting a last-ditch legal challenge to stall or prevent a three-day strike that would shut down classrooms across the nation’s second-largest school district starting on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

They feed children who can’t hold a fork. But these LAUSD workers will strike

LOS ANGELES — For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t hold a fork, changes diapers, helps students choose colors for their paintings, doles out hugs when…

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