Los Angeles Teachers Reach Deal to End Strike
Elementary school teachers Iris Marin, Mireya Gutierrez, and Lorena Redford, rally in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After six days of striking teachers picketing their schools, the teachers union and the Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement that would end…
Los Angeles Teachers Explain Why They’re on Strike for Their Students
Teachers picketed and rallied Friday as a strike against the giant Los Angeles Unified School District entered its fifth day with a new round of contract negotiations underway. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles have been on strike for the past…
Teachers at This South LA High School Are Picketing to Get Their Students More Resources
Darryl McKellar, right, an English teacher at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School, joined thousands of teachers at rally in Grand Park during Los Angeles teachers strike. Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outside Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles on Friday, students hauled their…
Thousands of Striking Teachers Rally in Downtown Los Angeles
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the fifth day of this year’s historic strike teachers’ strike in Los Angeles, an exodus of students, parents, teachers, and supporters flooded out of the nearby Metro station, and stomped onto the muddy greenery at Grand Park in downtown LA.…
Restoring Rights for 10 Percent of Potential Florida Voters
Phelan M. Ebenhack/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. He did his time. Now, 14 years after being released from prison, Desmond Meade is registered to vote. Submitting his voter registration form last week, Meade described the moment as “very, very emotional.” And he has himself to thank: Meade led…
Teachers in Los Angeles Are About to Go on Strike. It Could Get Messy.
United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl (left) joins teachers at a downtown rally in December. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, 30,000 teachers across 900 public schools are planning to go on strike in Los Angeles following a monthslong standoff over large class sizes and inadequate support and pay…