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LAUSD teachers prepare to strike next month
LA Unified schools are on winter holiday now, but teachers are hard at work preparing for a possible strike. We look at why teachers and the LAUSD have major disagreements on salaries, class sizes, standardized testing, and staffing.
By Madeleine Brand • • 48m ListenLA Unified schools are on winter holiday now, but teachers are hard at work preparing for a possible strike. We look at why teachers and the LAUSD have major disagreements on salaries, class sizes, standardized testing, and staffing.
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5 storiesWhat are the allegations of illegal conduct by the Trump Foundation?
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood says her investigation found “a shocking pattern of illegality” when they started looking into President Trump’s charity. She filed suit in June. Today, the president agreed to shut down the Donald J.
Read the story7 minLAUSD teachers prepare for a possible strike
LA Unified School District announced today that it’s reached a salary agreement with the teachers union (UTLA), which came after a state-appointed fact finder recommended a 6 percent raise.
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President Trump today said he would seek “different” sources to pay for the border wall. The LA Times’ Molly Hennessy Fiske has been writing about life in the border town of Roma, Texas.
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Peter Beinart writes in the Atlantic that the right-wing populists rising to power across the world have one glaring thing in common: their desire to subordinate women.
Read the story14 minWhy Hanukkah is more popular in the U.S. than Israel
Written by Amy Ta, produced by Yael Even Or Press Play producer Yael Even Or is from Israel, a mostly Jewish country. In Israel, Hanukkah is not the spectacle it is in the U.S. When Even Or was growing up, Hanukkah meant lighting…
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