Please take a moment to read the following memo and attachments that were shared by NYSUT. BMUST has contributed $500 from VOTE COPE to the Los Angeles Teachers Strike Fund. By now I'm sure you have heard that the 31,000 members of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) went on strike Monday against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The outcome of this strike will have profound implications for the future of public education, much as the successful Chicago Teachers' Union strike did in 2012 and the statewide strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona did last year. It is critically important that all educators understand the issues that brought L.A. teachers to this juncture and what's really at stake -- for all of us -- in this epic battle. While poor wages and working conditions are certainly part of the story, the greater issue is the LAUSD's refusal to use available funds to improve desperately inadequate learning conditions and its apparent determination to dismantle itself in order to turn over the education of L.A.'s more than 500,000 students currently not in charter schools to for-profit corporate charter operators. Please take a few moments to read the two attached articles to get the full picture. After reading the articles, I encourage you and your members to consider sending a donation to the UTLA strike fund as I have just done. Your local can make a donation. Remember, the fight UTLA is waging is for all of us -- professional educators, students, parents and public education itself. The Los Angeles Teacher/Parent Strike Solidarity Fund was set up by Reclaim Our Schools Los Angeles to engage parents and community members in support of the strike. The web site link to make donations is: https://www.aros-wearela.com/ Let's support our UTLA sisters and brothers in this fight! Matt Jacobs Regional Staff Director, Nassau Office Tel: (516) 496-2035 Mobile: (516) 319-7065 Fax: (516) 921-2964 [email protected] BE the union! www.nysut.org/unionvalue
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