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More Blood & Guts: JosephK Says Vote NO on the UTLA Tentative Agreement

More Blood & Guts: JosephK Says Vote NO on the UTLA Tentative Agreement:

More Blood & Guts: JosephK Says Vote NO on the UTLA Tentative Agreement

by JOSEPH K. on DECEMBER 13, 2011

More Blood and Guts

By Joseph K

Public education has been nothing but blood and guts the last few years, but the gore spread across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) has been particularly copious of late. Let’s start with the latest. December 15 is the deadline for California’s Department of Finance to announce its final revenue numbers for the year. For those of you with short attention spans, you may not remember how Governor Brown and the State Legislature reached a budget agreement earlier this year: through magic. One day it was announced the State’s economy, much to the surprise of everyone, was doing really well and