LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of public education supporters from Southern California and all over the nation are expected to march side by side through the streets of downtown on Saturday, December 15, to demand that the Los Angeles Unified School District give our students a chance and stop starving our schools.
In this article by Howard Blume in the LA Times he covers a protest that shut down a Los Angeles Board of Education meeting. Click to read on.
We knew it was a setup when Candi Clark, chief financial officer of the LA County Office of Education, appeared before the school board in August and backed up LAUSD’s claims of fiscal insolvency. Her speech was too perfectly aligned with LAUSD’s talking points to be anything but a coordinated stunt. Turns out we were right. Click to read on.
During the fact-finding stage of collective bargaining with the Los Angeles Unified School District, UTLA presented to the panel a forceful case for our bargaining demands and how they are essential to building the healthy, nurturing educational environment that all students deserve. Click to read on.
I’m a parent of two LAUSD students, and I fully support a potential teachers’ strike. A strike may be the only way to get the state and the school district to invest in our children—all of our children.
UTLA Elementary Vice President Gloria Martinez explains what it means to withhold our labor as we move closer to a possible strike. Click here to read on.
UTLA Charter educators show solidarity with their fellow union educators in the following letter. Click here to read on.
While the daily demands of our job require us to be pillars of patience, everyone has a limit. And believe me when I say to you, your public school teachers have reached it. Op-Ed by Lisa Falco LAUSD Instructional Coach & Intervention Teacher. Click here to read on.
In this edition of the President's Perspective by Alex Caputo-Pearl the competing visions of Supt. Austin Beutner and our UTLA President for the future of public education in Los Angeles are discussed. Click here for more.
The UTLA officers want to express support for the communities throughout our region and state being impacted by wildfires, including many of our members and their families. For those directly affected, please go to https://www.ctamemberbenefits.org/drf for information about the CTA Disaster Relief Fund, which provides resources for UTLA members who suffer significant losses due to a natural disaster.
