Posts tagged L.A. Unified School District
Opinion: As strike looms, LA schools need reform — not more spending
February 8, 2026 // Rather, only three reforms have any hope of improving performance in LA Unified: breaking up the district; parental choice; and Mississippi-style rigor. Remember that this is the teachers union that delayed school reopenings after the Covid lockdown and attached extraneous political demands to the reopening process. What the union is now demanding will leave the district unable to pay its bills within three years.
Voters approved more arts money for schools. Powerful unions allege funds are being misused
April 1, 2024 // The unions and Beutner are calling on the state to require that districts certify within 30 days "that Prop. 28 funds have not been used to supplant any existing spending for arts education at any school." In addition, the signatories want the state to require school districts to list "additional arts and music teachers" employed by each school district in the current school year and "how that compares" to the prior year. "We say more means more," said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. "That means every student at every school in the entire state, and that also has to translate to more educators and classified workers in every school."