Second Largest School District Faces Teachers Strike

“There is currently an effort to call for a strike that pits adults versus adults when students and their families will bear the brunt of a strike action.”

- LAUSD School Board

Having gladly accepted the title of “a gadfly at the school board meetings”, I have a natural tendency to be suspicious of the LAUSD’s marketing materials. This is particularly true when the document is titled with the very 1984 sounding “Just the Facts.” However, recognizing that the union’s first priority is to represent the best interests of the teachers, I realize that their contract demands are not going to automatically line up with the needs of families. With this in mind, I dove into the gap that divides the two sides. I have broken the issues down by what the District states the UTLA claims are:

L.A. Unified won’t schedule a mediation date and is stalling.

The District makes this statement without providing any reference to where they found the information so it is impossible to determine what the union actually…