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UTLA Elects a New President
LA's teachers union has a new President. Will Alex Caputo-Pearl be able to overcome Superintendent Mike Deasy's objections to these educational reforms?
By Barbara Bogaev • • 16m ListenLA's teachers union has a new President and he leans left. Alex Caputo-Pearl is against the growing influence of standardized testing and evaluating teacher based on student test scores. Eighty percent of the union is behind him. Barbara Bogaev asks whether this new leader will be able to overcome Superintendent Mike Deasy's objections to these educational reforms? Also, Can the NBA force Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers?
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Read the story9 minUTLA Elects a New and Little Known President… by a Landslide
The United Teacher's Union of Los Angeles has just chosen a new President, and with a large mandate. Eighty percent of LA Unified's teachers voted for Alex Caputo-Pearl over the sitting president, Warren Fletcher. The new leader of the teachers' union has a long record in progressive causes in education.
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