2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike
2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike | |||
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Part of the 2018–19 education workers' strikes in the United States | |||
![]() Educators in Little Tokyo during the second day of the strike. | |||
Date | January 14–22, 2019 | ||
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More than 30,000 public-school teachers of the
In August 2018, under the leadership of progressive UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl,
A fact-finding report failed to resolve matters and UTLA stated that a strike would proceed on January 10, 2019.[7] The school district attempted to stop the strike on legal grounds, but a judge allowed it to proceed.[8] 30,000 teachers walked out of class and onto the picket line in what became the first such strike in Los Angeles in thirty years,[9] which would last six days.[10] Following the six days of crowded rallies,[11] UTLA and the school district reached a deal on a new contract on January 22, 2019,[12] which included teacher pay raises, full-time librarians for middle and high schools, a commitment to provide full-time nurses for every school, and the establishment of thirty "community schools" in the model of Austin, Texas and Cincinnati, though UTLA failed to impose a binding cap on charter schools.[10]
References
- ^ Blume, Howard; Kohli, Sonali (22 January 2019). "LAUSD teachers' strike ends. Teachers to return to classrooms Wednesday". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "Starved of resources and respect | UTLA". www.utla.net. Archived from the original on 2019-03-15. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "UTLA members vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike | UTLA". www.utla.net. Archived from the original on 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "Possible LAUSD Strike Would Be First Since 1989 – Los Feliz Ledger". www.losfelizledger.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "L.A. teachers union rallies supporters with call for cap on charter schools". Los Angeles Times. 2018-12-22. Archived from the original on 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ "Op-Ed: Alex Caputo-Pearl: Why Los Angeles teachers may have to strike". Los Angeles Times. 2019-01-06. Archived from the original on 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ Blume, Howard (19 December 2018). "L.A. teachers strike appears more likely as a key report fails to bring the union and district together". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 18 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "Judge denies L.A. school district's bid to block teachers strike". Los Angeles Times. 2019-01-05. Archived from the original on 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "LA Teachers Go On Strike For First Time In 30 Years". KCAL 9 Los Angeles. January 14, 2019. Archived from the original on January 22, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- ^ a b Blume, Howard; Kohli, Sonali (22 January 2019). "LAUSD teachers' strike ends. Teachers to return to classrooms Wednesday". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Silva, Daniella; Johnson, Alex (14 January 2019). "'Escalate, escalate, escalate': L.A. teachers' strike to head into its second day Tuesday". NBC News. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Medina, Jennifer; Goldstein, Dana (22 January 2019). "Los Angeles Teachers' Strike to End as Deal Is Reached". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.