LA teachers are about to go on Strike (the 2nd largest school district in America)

[OfTheCross]

The nation's wave of teacher strikes may hit L.A. this week. But here's how ours is different




Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles paint the approaching job action as the latest act in an ongoing morality tale. Teachers are heroes in a national mobilization, fighting the good fight for students and the future of public education. That narrative casts L.A. school Supt. Austin Beutner as an untrustworthy villain, whose hidden agenda is to turn over campuses to profiteers and the private operators of non-union charter schools in something akin to a corporate takeover.
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Beutner vigorously contests this interpretation, saying his goal is to make district-run schools as good as they can be, to live within the district’s financial means and even to join with the union in seeking more state funding.

The superintendent has largely avoided the ideology of the dispute, but there certainly are union critics ready to respond full force.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Not sure how it works on Cali bit on Texas the school district gets paid off attendance. The more students the more money. With that said charter schools are taking over and there will be no more public schools in the hood om about another decade. Charter schools are ass and parents will be forced to send their kids there when their public school in there district gets ahut down due to low performing test scores. Big business (charter schools) I believe are lobbying on Capital Hill for this

 

[OfTheCross]

Not sure how it works on Cali bit on Texas the school district gets paid off attendance. The more students the more money. With that said charter schools are taking over and there will be no more public schools in the hood om about another decade. Charter schools are ass and parents will be forced to send their kids there when their public school in there district gets ahut down due to low performing test scores. Big business (charter schools) I believe are lobbying on Capital Hill for this

Don't believe, KNOW, they're lobbying for this.

I don't understand the big push for Charter Schools. All of the funding is still coming from the government isn't it? Them shyts ain't like private schools...