LA Teachers Strike is About Charter Schools and High Stakes Testing
On Monday more than 30,000 teachers at 900 schools in Los Angeles, California, will be on strike.
And unlike the wave of teachers strikes last year in red states like West Virginia, this time educators are taking to the streets due to the policies of Democrats.
At issue are things like lowering class sizes and providing more nurses, librarians and counselors.
But behind these issues lies one of the most important facts about our country.
When you get right down to it, there is very little difference between many Democratic policymakers and their Republican counterparts.
You think Betsy Devos is the opposite of Arne Duncan? Wrong.
You think Barack Obama is the opposite of Donald Trump? Wrong again.
Though there are differences, those often amount to differences of degree.
Corporate Democrats like almost all Republicans support the same education policies – school privatization and high stakes testing – that are robbing the LA Unified School District of the funding it needs to meet the needs of its students.
THAT’S why class sizes have ballooned to more than 45 students in secondary schools; 35 students in upper elementary grades; and 25 students in lower CONTINUE READING: LA Teachers Strike is About Charter Schools and High Stakes Testing | gadflyonthewallblog
