Teachers and education workers in the second largest school district in the country, Los Angeles Unified School District, just voted to authorize their first strike in almost 30 years. In this episode, we discuss the various reasons for this potential strike, how the strike could affect the students in the district, and what demands the teachers are making.

Full show transcript can be found here.

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What We Discuss in This Episode:

• The reasons why the LAUSD teachers are striking
• Are the strikes simply regarding salaries or could classroom sizes be anther reason?
• What the district's budget is and why they’ve rejected the teacher union’s requests despite having the financial ability to potentially meet their requests
• What affect this will have on all of the students that will be displaced (especially given LAUSD is the second largest district in the nation)
• What have other districts across the country gone on strike for?
• What role the internet has played in this activism
• Who’s really affected by the districts’ unwillingness to provide funding?
• What affect did a teacher strike in West Virginia have?
• Whether you’re for or against unions, it’s undeniable that something needs to change so this might be an only option
• School districts have money; it’s how they allocate and distribute the money that’s the issue

Resources Mentioned:

Read more about the strike here and here. 

Read about Arizona's strike