Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said schools will temporarily close and if that happens, he warns parents should start talking now with their employers and child care providers.
"Ultimately, we must do what is in the best interest of our students as well as our workforce, which includes exercising fiscal responsibility," according to a district statement. "Our general fund is not a flexible budget reserve -- the district cannot go bankrupt. We need to be united in our efforts to provide every child with access to a high-quality public education that will prepare them for success in school and life.
Both unions are working to negotiate new labor pacts with the district, but those talks have been fruitless thus far. SEIU, which has declared an impasse in talks, announced plans earlier this month to cancel its existing contract, moving the union closer to a possible strike. UTLA followed suit a week later, and said its members would honor picket lines if SEIU called a strike.
"Workers are fed-up with living on poverty wages -- and having their jobs threatened for demanding equitable pay. Workers are fed-up with the short staffing at LAUSD -- and being harassed for speaking up," Max Arais, SEIU Local 99 executive director, said in a statement last week. "We demand that LAUSD stop the unlawful activity, or workers are ready to take stronger action to protest these unfair practices. Canceling our contract is not a decision we make lightly.
Teachers can afford to live in CA? How tf?
How about we pay them more IF our kids stop failing? LAUSD is ranked 493 of all 1,165 school districts in California, maybe we pay teachers not to fail, but give RESULTS BASED raises, not blanket raises? go watch Waiting for Superman, unions are the problem, not a solution.
No big loss!! Give the kids a break from communist indoctrination!!!
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LAUSD is 💩. They don’t give a single damn about the kids. Parents need to pull their kids out of public schools.
At last some good news
Political activism by the unions on full display. What does this have to do with education? This is what you get with government employee unions. It's part of California's capture by the Demoncrats. Shake the dust off your feet as you leave. You've been warned.
If they take much more time off .. who needs them.!
I WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY DAMN PERSON WHO TRIES TO USE MY KIDS I WILL NOT EVER FORGET WHO HAS TRIED OR THINKS ABOUT TRYING AND I WILL FOREVER BE YOUR ENEMY
Fire them all, hire anti-communists.
Let them walk, then fire their ass. All the posturing during covid they don’t deserve to teach kittens.
Yeah, it's the adults that are losing in this city:
They do not care about the kids, and never have.
Time for a pay cut! Poor job performance! Highest drop out rate.
I support them.
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