The Teachers Striking in LA Won a Big Concession: More Nurses, Counselors, and Librarians
Alejandra Gurrola travels between three elementary schools in Los Angeles to work with students. Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a rally Friday afternoon outside Los Angeles City Hall, Alejandra Gurrola stared out at a sea of teachers and supporters clad in red. She used to be…
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…