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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Schools Matter: 99% Educator Sarah Knopp interviewed at OccupyLAUSD #ows

Schools Matter: 99% Educator Sarah Knopp interviewed at OccupyLAUSD:

99% Educator Sarah Knopp interviewed at OccupyLAUSD

Teachers and students and parents are part of the 99% and that we're really one of the groups that has taken the brunt of the economic crises... In reality public employees and our unions are being blamed for a problem that was caused by the banks. Where the banks are getting a 700 billion dollar bail out, whereas the banks, Chase Bank in particular owes the City of Los Angeles 15 million dollars in unpaid property taxes, and yet 1,200 Los Angeles schoolteachers have been laid off, and 400 clerical staff, and we think there's the money exists to