During that semester I taught six separate classes and was responsible for more than 250 students. Despite the pretense that real instruction was taking place, teachers like me were largely engaged in crowd management and little more.
The city’s 3,000 teachers walked off the job to demand higher pay, smaller classes and more school resources.
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Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win
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Teachers across the country face a systematic underfunding of public schools and a systematic devaluing of the teaching profession by leaders who say public education should be swept aside to make room for a system of private free-market education.
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This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?
As the year comes to a close, take a look back to one of the most surprising and exciting labor uprisings of 2018.
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