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UTLA Shames the “Corporate Special Interests” with Billboards | Diane Ravitch's blog

UTLA Shames the “Corporate Special Interests” with Billboards | Diane Ravitch's blog

UTLA Shames the “Corporate Special Interests” with Billboards


The United Teachers of Los Angeles is militantly fighting back against the privatizers who are attacking public schools and seek to divert public money to charters and vouchers. The UTLA embodies Resistance to privatization and to those who oppose full funding of Los Angeles’ public schools.
UTLA has created a billboard portraying the “Corporate Special Interests Vs. Our Public Schools.”
Open the link to see the billboard.
The billboard portrays Donald Trump, Betsy DeVos, and others who are undermining the funding of public schools attended by the majority of students.
Los Angeles— United Teachers Los Angeles has launched a new phase of the “We Are Public Schools” campaign that includes more than 75 billboards across LA. One billboard features Donald Trump and posted the same day he attacked teachers and called public schools “failed government schools” in his State of the Union CONTINUE READING: UTLA Shames the “Corporate Special Interests” with Billboards | Diane Ravitch's blog