UTLA ACCUSES LAUSD OF RETALIATING AGAINST TEACHERS- WHO KNEW?
" When LAUSD maintains a culture in which teachers are afraid to speak up, where people feel cowed, UTLA has to step up to the plate. UTLA has to use whatever resources we have, whatever legal authority we have, to reverse that."
Are we supposed to believe that Fletcher was surprised to find out that retaliation has been going on here at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), when literally thousands of teachers have already been hounded out of the teaching profession by Superintendent Deasy and his morally challenged predecessor Ramon "Snuggles" Cortines?
Somehow Warren didn't seem to notice UTLA hemorrhaging close to 10,000 dues paying members over the last few years, which he has used as a convenient Catch-22 up until now for why he has done absolutely nothing to come to the aid of teachers LAUSD has and continues to retaliate against. Fletcher crows, "UTLA is in the red and doesn't have the money to litigate on behalf of its rank and file." So what is different now?
Let's look at the two schools involved in the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) action that Fletcher and Co. have finally seen fit to file as they come to the rescue of 11 Crenshaw High School teachers and one City of Angels teacher. Isn't Crenshaw the home school of Fletcher's chief opponent Alex Caputo-Pearl in the