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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How are low-income minority students handling the teachers strike?

    The teacher’s union and LAUSD restarted negotiations today for the first time in a week.

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    By Jenny Hamel • Jan 17, 2019 • 1 min read

    The teacher’s union and LAUSD restarted negotiations today for the first time in a week. With the strike in its fourth day, the district says it’s losing up to $15 million a day because funding is tied to student attendance, and most students aren’t showing up. KCRW reporter Jenny Hamel was in Central LA, where teachers from San Pedro Street Elementary and Santee Education Complex met with parents. At those schools, kids are mostly black and brown, many qualify for free or reduced lunches, and many are English language learners.

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    How the teachers strike affects low-income minority students
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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    How the teachers strike affects low-income minority students
    1. 0:00How are low-income minority students handling the teachers strike?You’re reading this
    2. 5:52Former LAUSD board member and teacher: The district is not going bankrupt
    3. 13:19What happened at Andrew Wheeler’s EPA hearing?
    4. 21:26Why the Women’s March movement is fracturing
    5. 38:05Will the LA Rams make it to the Super Bowl?
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