Over the past year, nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander (API) peoples have been reported in the United States — and likely many more have gone unreported. UTLA condemns each and every act of hate and stands in and alongside the API community.
As millions of working families - including frontline workers in hospitals, grocery stores, food processing plants, sanitation, transportation, and other professions - have been forced to leave home for work and scramble to find childcare throughout the pandemic, it's become more clear than ever that we as a society must do more to provide affordable childcare options for families with children too young for school, but this problem can't be resolved in UTLA and LAUSD's hybrid return agreement.
Watch the March 12, 2021 UTLA Facebook Live with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz.
We are proud to announce that LAUSD has agreed to all three safety criteria voted by an overwhelming majority of UTLA members (91% yes) as the necessary conditions for a safe return to in-person teaching and learning.
LOS ANGELES — UTLA members have voted overwhelmingly to resist a premature and unsafe physical return to school sites. Over five days of voting March 1 through 5 conducted by Integrity Voting Systems, 24,580 ballots were cast, with 91% Yes ballots (22,480) and 9% No (2,100).
From Washington DC to Sacramento to LA, the failure by our elected officials to get this deadly pandemic under control has brought COVID-19 to our doorstep. LA is the epicenter of both the virus infection rates and the return-to-school debate.
Watch and read the UTLA Facebook Live Transcript for February 26, 2021.
LOS ANGELES — Let’s be clear: the pressure building to return to schools is political. It is not science. Returning to schools without proper health and safety protections will expose our children and our educators to COVID-19, putting families at risk of illness and death.
With Women's History Month coming up, we plan to highlight the powerful women in UTLA and provide inspirHERation to our students, families and communities.
