Monday, January 14, 2019

LA teacher strike sally north

Over 32000 teachers walked off the job in the nation's second largest school district due to Union negotiations asking for the school district to hire more teachers and give a pay raise.
According to my mother, from her experiance working as a music educator in LA Unified school district, the schools were massively understaffed with as many as 40 children being crammed into a single classroom. She would also teach at over 10 schools a week, one in the morning and one in the afternoon every day, making it near impossible to have an impactful relationship with a student.
This event is most similar to the Wisconsin teacher strike in 2011, where teachers protested for over five months. The Wisconsin strike ended unsuccessfully, but I have hope that the LA strike will bring about change in LA Unified.
https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/14/teachers-in-los-angeles-want-more-than-just-a-raise--heres-why-over-30000-are-on-strike-today-.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2019%2F01%2F14%2Fteachers-in-los-angeles-want-more-than-just-a-raise--heres-why-over-30000-are-on-strike-today-.html

1 comment:

  1. The need for higher pay for teachers has been going on for a long time so when is the change going to happen.

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