Class Sizes: Teachers and Teacher Walkouts

class sizes: Months of talks between the union with 35,000 members and the Los Angeles Unified School District ended without a deal, according to The Japan Times. It follows teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor. Students, we are striking for you, teachers union President Alex Caputo-Pearl told a cheering crowd of teachers marching in pouring rain. ; Members of United Teachers Los Angeles voted last year to walk off the job for the first time in three decades if a deal wasn't reached on issues including higher wages and smaller class sizes. Schools will stay open because the district with 640,000 students has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace teachers and others who leave for picket lines. The district maintained that the union's demands could bankrupt the school system, which is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and has billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers. The union has called it irresponsible to hire substitutes and called on parents to consider keeping students home or join marchers. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.