Teachers: You Will Never Change LAUSD Until You Change UTLA - Voter Guide
A professional teachers' union promulgates what it stands for, it does not say like Past UTLA Presidents Day Higuchi, John Perez, and now A.J. Duffy, "Let's see what the District says." If you play that game as I told these three years ago - sometime you don't want to be right - LAUSD will move to destroy the union when it gets 150 charters.
Higuchi, Perez, and Duffy refused to address this and now the chickens are coming home to roost with professional unionized teachers targeted for extinction in the not too distant future in favor of a neo-liberal vision of privatized education of all public schools with teaching to the 7th grade level - sufficient to work at Walmart, the largest employer in the country - and low paid, no benefit instructors who teach for a few years out of college before moving on.
This privatized vision of public education is worth between $280-350 billion a year for the same folks who