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JUST IN: LA Unified, citing new money, ups its offer to teachers
* UPDATED Bolstered by a more robust state budget, LA Unified today said it was doubling its offer to union teachers for a raise. The latest salary proposal, unveiled during today’s contract negotiations, is a four percent boost across all salary bases. The offer comes on the heels of Governor Jerry Brown’s 2015-16 proposed state budget, which is...
By Vanessa Romo | January 14, 2015
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Bay Area teacher pay progress comes amid LA Unified standstill
As negotiations between LA Unified and its teachers union, UTLA, stumble along with still a wide gap on salaries, two Bay Area school districts, have made significant progress in their own deals with teachers. San Francisco teachers have agreed to a double-digit raise over three years while Oakland teachers are in line to get at...
By Craig Clough | January 5, 2015
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A turbulent year in LA Unified: Our top 11 stories of 2014
The year 2014 was not a banner one in the history of the Los Angeles Unified School District. While there was positive news – in particular continued improvement in student achievement – the district often found itself the subject of increasingly negative headlines. Here, in no particular order, are the top stories about LA Unified...
By Craig Clough | December 18, 2014
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Teachers union rejects pay increase offer from LAUSD
Back to the drawing board. Following the most recent bargaining session last Thursday, the teachers’ union, UTLA, has reportedly rejected a pay increase offer from LA Unified negotiators that fell short its goal of a 10 percent salary increase. The latest district offer included a 2 percent salary increase retroactive to July 1, a 2 percent...
By LA School Report | December 8, 2014
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Analysis: LAUSD offer to UTLA a march to progress or a strike?
LA Unified’s latest offer to the teachers union, UTLA, represents either a hint of progress in negotiations for the teachers’ first contract in more than seven years or fertile ground for moving toward a strike. Here’s why the uncertainty: The 6 percent package includes the same salary increase that the district has offered all its...
By Michael Janofsky | December 5, 2014
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LA Unified board returning momentarily into public view
The LA Unified school board, gathering again tomorrow, will appear in open session long enough to hear the introduction of a largely symbolic measure, a resolution to support President Obama’s executive order on immigration. Then, the members will disappear into a closed meeting to review the usual subjects of closed meetings — personnel moves, litigation...
By LA School Report | December 1, 2014
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Thesis film examines bitterness of Crenshaw High reconstitution
The battle over the fate of South LA’s Crenshaw High School is now over, but a new documentary film from a UC Santa Cruz grad student takes a fresh and hard-edged look at the bitterness and anger that was unleashed when the LA Unified school board voted to reconstitute the school in 2013. The film,...
By Craig Clough | October 24, 2014
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LA Unified reiterates: UTLA demands would lead to cutbacks
In the first contract talks under LA Unified’s new superintendent, Ray Cortines, negotiators for the district and the teachers union, UTLA, hit another snag yesterday as the district reasserted claims that unions demands are unsustainable and would lead to severe cutbacks to key programs, resources, and personnel that would detrimentally impact students. The union is...
By Vanessa Romo | October 23, 2014
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Caputo-Pearl insists Deasy’s resignation not a victory for UTLA
Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the teachers union, UTLA, stopped short today of saying he was pleased with former LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy‘s resignation, instead insisting that achieving the union’s contract demands — not Deasy’s resignation — would be a victory. “What’s going to be a victory for UTLA is actually winning the demands in our...
By Craig Clough | October 16, 2014
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Cortines on returning to LAUSD a third time: ‘They called my bluff’
No one was more surprised that Ray Cortines became the latest LA Unified superintendent than Ray Cortines. “I hadn’t been planning to return, and I didn’t negotiate with the board,” he told LA School Report today. “The only caveat I put out was that it would have to be a unanimous vote, and I didn’t...
By Michael Janofsky | October 16, 2014