<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: 30,000 Teachers Strike in America’s Second-Largest School District

What We’re Following

More than 30,000 teachers in Los Angeles are heading to the picket line. Over the past year, teachers in states around the country—from West Virginia to Oklahoma—have staged walkouts calling for higher pay and better working conditions. Today, educators in the Los Angeles Unified School District joined them, driven by concerns that current school conditions aren’t adequately supporting the district’s students, 73 percent of whom are Latino, and who struggle with a lack of documentation, homelessness, and gang violence.

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