Lausd strike update update#

It's offering a 6 percent raise over the first two years of a three-year contract, while teachers want 6.5 percent retroactive to a year earlier. It also contends that budget restraints means it must any limit new hiring to one year. LAUSD's latest offer builds on previous proposals and would reduce classroom sizes, but not to the extent the union is demanding. has increased 27 percent yet the district offers stagnant wages and healthcare,' the union said in a news release. 'Even with $1.86 billion reserves, LAUSD says it does not have the money to improve our schools to include lower class sizes, accountability for charter schools and a real reinvestment in school safety, vital staffing and educational programs. For now, the nationвЂ™s second largest school district is using substitute teachers to keep classrooms open on a regular schedule for the hundreds of thousands of elementary, middle, and high-school students LAUSD serves, though as.

The union is also looking to cap the growth of privately operated charter schools, which competes for resources with public schools. 17, 2019, marks the fourth day of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachersвЂ™ strike. It wants a full-time nurse in every school, along with more counselors and librarians. The LAUSD currently enrolls 640,000 students, and this is the first time its employees have gone on strike in over thirty years.In addition to higher pay and improved benefits, UTLA is demanding smaller classroom sizes and schools that are 'fully staffed' with nurses, counselors and librarians.

Lausd strike update update#

The LAUSD claims it cannot afford to increase its budget as the union demands because most of its funding comes from the state government and adding more supplementary funding from the county could bankrupt the LAUSD. Welcome back to school, says President Conrado Guerrero to his LAUSD co-workers ATTN: LAUSD Special Ed update on cuts to Special Ed hours ATTN LAUSD T.A. The office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and union representatives are still in contract negotiations as of Saturday, January 19, after teachers rejected LAUSDвЂ™s latest offer to hire 1,200 new support staff in schools and to reduce class sizes by an average of two students. LA Unified teachers have voted to refuse to return to in-person teaching until certain safety conditions are met.

This marks the first major teachersвЂ™ strike of 2019 after teachers in West Virginia and several other states held strikes in 2018 citing budget cuts, stagnant wages, and a similar lack of support for students. Ma/ 4:00 AM / CBS Los Angeles We want to clarify an earlier report. Schools are currently being staffed by a skeleton crew of substitute teachers, administrators, and other LAUSD employees not represented by the teachersвЂ™ union, and only one third of students are attending classes. In a show of solidarity, some members of the Service Employees International Union who work in the LAUSD have chosen to forego their own pay to join the teachers on strike. Demonstrators cite a lack of school nurses, librarians, and counselors, as well as class sizes ballooning above 50 students and special needs students being neglected as their reasons for striking. Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) continue to strike this week amidst increasing class sizes and insufficient support for low-income students across the city.

Graphic fromВ Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After nearly two years of failed negotiations and a six-day strike, the Los Angeles teachers union's contract dispute with the nation's second-largest school district is finally over.