LAUSD Meets To Discuss Problematic MISIS Computer Tracking System
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The LAUSD board met Tuesday over the district’s heavily-criticized computer tracking system, with the teacher’s union starting to speak out. LAUSD is using the program, called...
View ArticleLAUSD Board Discusses Superintendent John Deasy’s Upcoming Performance Review
SILVER LAKE (CBSLA.com) — Educators at every LAUSD school wore red Tuesday as a sign of unity ahead an October job performance review of controversial Superintendent John Deasy. Deasy, who has been...
View ArticleLA School Board Meets Amid Calls For Smaller Class Sizes, MISIS Audit
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles school board officials were set to meet Tuesday as teachers are calling for smaller class sizes and parents want a civil grand jury investigation and audit...
View ArticleExclusive: Unions Blast LAUSD For Telling Cafeteria Workers To Speak Only...
KOREATOWN (CBSLA.com) — Workers unions are firing back at the Los Angeles Unified School District after it is believed to have told cafeteria workers at Harvard Elementary School they could only speak...
View ArticleLAUSD Responds To Backlash Over English-Only Cafeteria Rule
KOREATOWN (CBSLA.com) — The LAUSD is responding to criticism from employees after cafeteria workers were told to only speak English. A sign recently posted at Harvard Elementary School in Koreatown...
View ArticleLAUSD Teachers Picket For Higher Salaries, Smaller Class Sizes
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_20150212195943530AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Unionized Los Angeles Unified School district teachers picketed before classes Thursday to continue their...
View ArticleLAUSD Officials Warn Potential Teachers Strike Could Mean ‘Catastrophic’ Layoffs
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_20150226203948347AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Officials with the Los Angeles Unified school district (LAUSD) are preparing for the possibility of a...
View ArticleFacing Budget Deficit, LAUSD To Consider Layoffs For 609 Employees
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles Unified School District Board, facing a nearly $160 million budget deficit, will consider authorizing layoff warning notices for 609 teachers, counselors and...
View ArticleThousands Of LAUSD Educators To Boycott After-School Faculty Meetings In...
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_2403201506584763183AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — In an escalating dispute between teachers and the L.A. Unified School District, educators announced that...
View ArticleTeachers Union Calls On LAUSD To Rescind More Than 600 Layoff Notices
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Hearings are underway Monday before an administrative law judge to determine whether the Los Angeles Unified School District can go forward with laying off more than 600...
View ArticleTeachers Union Reaches Agreement With LAUSD
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The union representing LAUSD teachers voted Friday night to accept an agreement with the district. It includes a 10 percent salary increase over two years and caps on class...
View ArticleTeachers Union Protests Eli Broad’s Charter School Plan At Art Museum Opening
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Protesters on Sunday morning gathered outside Eli Broad’s new $140 million contemporary art museum to call on the billionaire to halt plans to back a charter school plan that...
View ArticleCharter School Expansion Backers Say Poll Shows 74 Percent Of Voters Support...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Supporters of a plan to expand the number of charter schools in Los Angeles released poll results Monday they say shows overwhelming public support for such an expansion. The...
View ArticleLA School Board To Weigh In On Charter School Fight
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles Board of Education is expected to begin considering two proposals aimed at limiting the growth and independence of charter schools. One proposal for the...
View ArticleLA Teachers Vote To Authorize Strike If Talks Stall
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Los Angeles Unified School District teachers Friday voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if labor negotiations with the district continue to stall, union officials...
View ArticleLAUSD, Teachers Union Begin Mediation
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — LAUSD teachers and the district will meet Thursday with a state mediator in an effort to avoid the first teachers’ walkout since 1989. The Los Angeles Unified School District...
View ArticleTeachers Union Rejects Latest Contract Offer From LAUSD
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The union for LA Unified teachers on Wednesday rejected the latest contract offer from the district. The development means they are now even closer to a walkout. The offer...
View ArticleThousands Of Teachers March In Downtown Los Angeles As Strike Looms
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) — Thousands of teachers who may go on strike against the nation’s second-largest school district next month marched and rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday....
View ArticleLAUSD Wants Teachers’ Union To Continue Negotiating Contract
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Unified School District urged the teachers union to return to the bargaining table to avoid the first strike in the city since 1989, in a statement released...
View ArticleLAUSD Files Suit To Block Special Ed Teachers From Going On Strike
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Unified School District has filed papers in federal court seeking an order to prevent a strike by members of United Teachers Los Angeles who provide...
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