LA schools lost $15 million on Day 1; teachers' strike continues for second day
LOS ANGELES - As the first Los Angeles teachers' strike in 30 years stretched into its second day Tuesday, the school district's top official lamented that the walkout already had cost millions in state funding.
Teachers, meanwhile, returned to the picket line and then converged downtown for a rally to protest the growth of charter schools, which their union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has blamed for draining funds from the district.
Los Angeles schools Superintendent Austin Beutner, in a morning news conference, said the first day hit hard with only a third of the district's students showing up for school. That cost the school system about $25 million in state funding
