LAUSD, UTLA - Perdaily.com

LAUSD, UTLA - Perdaily.com:

UTLA/LAUSD Tentative Agreement: WHY WE'RE VOTING NO By Area Chairs Aaron Bruhnke, Jose Lara, Dan Barnhart, and Gillian Russom

by Leonard Isenberg

(Mensaje se repite en Español)

(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

(Perdaily salutes the intelligence of the teachers who wrote this - take heed or continue to suffer the consequences)
We cannot support this Tentative Agreement, because doing so would
mean endorsing a process that accepts huge concessions without an
organized fight, and feeds the RIF cycle that has destabilized our
schools for four years.  We are voting "No" because:

This is not a solution for the RIF crisis

  We care deeply about our RIF'd colleagues - every single RIF is an