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READY to ACT NOW for Over a Year of Bargaining with LAUSD, We Have Continues to Disrespect Us and Refuses to Bargain Fought to Create a Better Future for Our Students Award-Winning Newspaper of United Teachers Los Angeles • www.utla.net Volume XLVII, Number 9, August 10, 2018 READY TO ACT NOW For over a year of bargaining with LAUSD, we have continues to disrespect us and refuses to bargain fought to create a better future for our students. As a meaningfully around key proposals. Meanwhile, the union we have presented a comprehensive package of billionaire bloc on the school board continues to push a proposals that addresses the needs of educators and privatization agenda that takes away more resources from students, including improvements in salary, class size, our neighborhood public schools. staffing, and school funding. We’ll continue working for an agreement, but LAUSD may LAUSD refuses to negotiate a fair agreement that leave us with no other option but to strike. Our fight is addresses our critical needs, even though the district more important than ever now that LAUSD Superintendent is sitting on $1.7 billion in reserves. LAUSD has even Austin Beutner is attacking our healthcare, claiming our plan rejected improvements with little or no cost, including costs 44% too much. August will be a huge month for our those to address declining enrollment. movement, including a critical all-member strike vote from August 23 to 30. A resounding YES vote will demonstrate that We have held rallies, school-site pickets, press UTLA members stand united and that we are committed to conferences, and community meetings but the district 100% participation in a strike, if one becomes necessary. END PRIVA USE THE Fair Wages $1.7B NOW! RESERVE! STRIKE VOTE: August 23-30 at school sites #GiveKidsAChance #StopStarvingOurPublicSchools Beutner’s “Hard Choices” report: Cut healthcare, pay, pensions, & student services Page 5 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net August 10, 2018 United Teacher President’s perspective PRESIDENT Alex Caputo-Pearl NEA AFFILIATE VP Cecily Myart-Cruz AFT AFFILIATE VP Juan Ramirez Starved of resources and respect ELEMENTARY VP Gloria Martinez SECONDARY VP Daniel Barnhart The time to act is now. TREASURER Alex Orozco SECRETARY Arlene Inouye By Alex Caputo-Pearl EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jeff Good UTLA President BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alex delivered the following State of the NORTH AREA: Karla Griego, Chair (Buchanan ES), Mark Union speech at the UTLA Leadership Con- Ramos (Contreras LC), Rebecca Solomon (RFK UCLA ference in July. Comm. School), Julie Van Winkle (LOOC Liason) Sisters and brothers, I’m going to start SOUTH AREA: Maria Miranda, Chair (Miramonte ES), Aydé Bravo (Maywood ES), L. Cynthia Matthews with what happened this week in bargain- (McKinley ES), Karen Ticer-León (Tweedy ES) ing. LAUSD claimed in early July that we EAST AREA: Adrian Tamayo, Chair (Lorena ES), were not at impasse. They said come back Ingrid Gunnell (Salary Point Advisor), Yolanda Tamayo to the table because they had something (Lorena ES), Gillian Russom (Roosevelt HS) substantial to offer. This past Tuesday, WEST AREA: Erika Jones, Chair (CTA Director), Georgia Flowers Lee (Saturn ES), Noah Lippe-Klein guess what, they offered no movement (Dorsey HS), Larry Shoham (Hamilton HS) on the vast majority of our proposals, and CENTRAL AREA: Kelly Flores (Hawkins HS), they doubled down on insulting us, with Tomás Flores (West Vernon ES), a paltry salary offer of 2% on the scale and Claudia Rodriquez (49th Street) a 2% one-time bonus. This after offering VALLEY EAST AREA: Scott Mandel, Chair (Pacoima administrators 3% on the scale, contingent Magnet), Victoria Casas (Beachy ES), Mel House (Elementary P.E.), Hector Perez-Roman (Arleta HS) on additional PD, and a 3% one-time bonus VALLEY WEST AREA: Bruce Newborn, Chair (Hale that could become permanent depending Charter), Melodie Bitter (Lorne ES), Wendi Davis on the budget. Frankly, we find both of (Henry MS), Javier Romo (Mulholland MS) these unacceptable—but it’s particularly HARBOR AREA: Steve Seal, Chair (Eshelman ES), galling that the district believes that we, Karen Macias (Del Amo ES), Jennifer McAfee (Dodson MS), Elgin Scott (Taper ES) frontline educators, are at the bottom of The UTLA officers at the 2018 Leadership Conference, where chapter leaders committed to ADULT & OCCUP ED: Matthew Kogan (Evans CAS) the barrel. We’re across the street from a strike readiness sprint in our fight for a contract that supports educators, students, and BILINGUAL EDUCATION: Cheryl L. Ortega (Sub Unit) Beaudry, so I want them to hear you. Are public education. EARLY CHILDHOOD ED: Position open we going to accept that kind of disrespect? Your UTLA Board of Directors said “no HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: a speech on July 19, reported in the Daily advantage of a demoralized staff to make Mallorie Evans (Educational Audiologist) way” and voted unanimously yesterday News, Beutner reiterated that he refuses to unilateral decisions. SPECIAL ED: Lucía Arias (Sub Unit) to declare impasse again. talk about the annual $600 million impact As this happened, career educators, SUBSTITUTES: Benny Madera Let’s be clear on some punchlines from of charter school growth on our neighbor- friends and mentors of mine, revered by PACE CHAIR: Marco Flores the outset. The LAUSD school board that hood public schools, saying it is irrelevant generations of students, left the school, UTLA RETIRED: John Perez the billionaires put a record-setting $13 and a distraction. Beutner followed this were displaced because of declining en- million into last year has hired a friend by saying something chilling: If we don’t rollment, or retired, often more defeated AFFILIATIONS of Eli Broad, an investment banker, as su- bend to his will and make changes on his than celebrated. I think about my friends American Federation of Teachers National Education Association perintendent. Even with our collective terms, he expects there will be no more who have hung tough at Crenshaw— victory of forcing Ref Rodriguez to resign, public school district in Los Angeles by Maynard Brown, a later career teacher; STATE & NATIONAL OFFICERS the driving forces on the school board the year 2021. Sara Wellington, a mid-career teacher— CFT PRESIDENT: Joshua Pechthalt are moving a privatization agenda. These Now, let’s be clear. This district has $1.7 and I think about great folks just coming CTA PRESIDENT: Eric Heins CTA DIRECTOR: Erika Jones forces believe that the Supreme Court’s billion in reserves and can respond pro- into the profession, like Maricela Lopez, a CFT VICE PRESIDENTS: Arlene Inouye, John Perez, Juan Ramirez Janus ruling attacking unions will help ductively to our demands. This district can fantastic community organizer, now a new NEA PRESIDENT: Lily Eskelsen Garcia them. Meanwhile, the state of Califor- take action to attract families and increase teacher, who could perhaps one day teach AFT PRESIDENT: Randi Weingarten nia—supposedly the pride and model for enrollment, while slowing the privatiza- at Crenshaw. Crenshaw is a microcosm AFT VICE PRESIDENT: Alex Caputo-Pearl NEA DIRECTOR: Mel House the Democratic Party—is at 43 out of the tion drain. And, this district can use its of the district: As Crenshaw’s enrollment 50 states in per-pupil funding. But, now unique leverage at the state level to fight went from more than 3,000 to under 1,000, UTLA COMMUNICATIONS hear this punchline. Amidst that troubling for more funding. Yet, Beutner refuses. the district’s went from over 800,000 to EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Alex Caputo-Pearl picture, educators across the country are In the same way that Donald Trump’s 500,000. It is criminal that career public COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Anna Bakalis rising up like we have never seen before— cabinet members like Betsy DeVos and servants, like Maynard and Sara, and those COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALISTS: Kim Turner, Carolina Barreiro, Tammy Lyn Gann, Pablo Serrano let’s hear it for West Virginia, Arizona, the disgraced Scott Pruitt attack the very ready to become public servants, like Mar- ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Laura Aldana Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Colorado. institutions they are supposed to protect, icela, spend more time worrying about Sisters and brothers, we are at a defin- Austin Beutner, the superintendent of existential questions than about lesson EDITORIAL INFORMATION ing moment. The questions before us are: public schools, attacks public schools. plans. Questions like, Will Crenshaw UNITED TEACHER Will we accept overloaded class sizes? This is shameful. remain open? Will I be displaced? Will I 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Fl., LA, CA 90010 Email: [email protected] Will we accept lies from those who see have enough basic resources to teach my UTLA main line: 213-487-5560 LAUSD as a business to be down-sized The austerity agenda classes? Will my healthcare survive? Will ADVERTISING rather than a civic institution to protect? As it is for many teachers, my former I have a job? Channing said this: “Cren- Senders Communications Group Brian Bullen: 818-884-8966, ext. 1108 Will we accept over-testing, privatiza- students ground me. I was recently talking shaw’s where I became who I am. It hurts tion, and an insulting salary offer? Will to Channing Martinez, who was in my me to see it like this.” UNITED TEACHER accepts paid advertisements from outside we accept disrespect? Let’s switch this up Crenshaw High, and all of our schools, companies and organizations, including UTLA sponsors ninth-grade class at Crenshaw High School and vendors with no relationship with UTLA. Only approved and get some “yesses.” Will we, instead, in 2001. He’s a community organizer now are being starved. Starved of resources vendors can use the UTLA logo in their ads. The content sisters and brothers, demand that they give and works near the school. He was reflect- and starved of respect. Crenshaw was of an advertisement is the responsibility of the advertiser alone, and UTLA cannot be held responsible for its accuracy, our kids a chance and stop starving our ing on how much it has changed over these never perfect, and it has been shaped veracity, or reliability.
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