Tag: UTLA
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The UTLA Strike
The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) has won a big, although limited victory. Fighting in a context of a school board controlled by corporate charter school advocates funded by Eli Broad and the Walton foundation in the second largest city in the United States in a state run by the Democratic Party they were…
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L.A. Teachers Win Big and Beat Back Privatizers
In a joyful, rain-drenched strike, 34,000 Los Angeles teachers won things no union has ever won. They forced Superintendent Austin Beutner, a former investment banker, to accept concessions even on topics he had previously refused even to bargain over. L.A. will reinstate limits on class size—and for most classes, reduce those limits by four students…