Archive for January 2019

Larry Sand’s commentary on the strikingly bad UTLA strike, which, in the planning stage for months, was a victory in no one’s eyes except Alex Caputo-Pearl. Like a much-ballyhooed but awful Broadway show, the Los Angeles teachers’ strike had a six-day run and no one was happy with it. Except maybe the producers. In fact, United…

Deficits and more deficits have piled up for the Los Angeles Unified School District.  Eric Boehm has the story on reason.com. Even as the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) struggled with a $15 billion long-term deficit for retiree health care costs, the district was managing to operate with a small revenue surplus for the current fiscal…

There is no more vivid example than this of the power of teacher unions to control the lives of teachers than the strike debacle currently in Denver, Colorado.  Although Colorado is not a Right to Work state, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus Supreme Court decision gives Colorado teachers the freedom to accept or…