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LA schools agreement to give unions greater role in imposing cuts By David Brown and Dan Conway - Perdaily.com

LA schools agreement to give unions greater role in imposing cuts By David Brown and Dan Conway (LA escuelas acuerdo para dar a los sindicatos un papel más importante en los cortes imponer por David Brown y Dan Conway) - Perdaily.com:

LA schools agreement to give unions greater role in imposing cuts By David Brown and Dan Conway (LA escuelas acuerdo para dar a los sindicatos un papel más importante en los cortes imponer por David Brown y Dan Conway)

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(Mensaje se repite en Español) (For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

When is a union not a union?

11 January 2012

On December 15, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) passed an agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that will bypass traditional job protections in the name of giving more autonomy to local schools.

The measure was passed by seventy percent of voting union members. However, with over 16,000 of the union's 35,600 members abstaining, only 38 percent of membership actually voted in favor of the