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    Commentary: Instead of striking, our energy is better used in finding consensus and building support for our public education

    In the spring of 1970, I voted with other teachers to strike for teachers’ rights. At the time, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) was a newly formed organization. I was in my second year as a teacher and I believed wholeheartedly that being on strike was the right thing to do. I would later come...

    By Roberta Benjamin Edwards | December 12, 2018



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