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LAUSD unions to announce timing of three-day strike that would shut down schools

United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz, left, SEIU Local 99 President Conrado Guerrero, center and UTLA Executive Director Jeff Good, right, pause for a photo during a union rally in front of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in December.

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of a union that represents financially struggling low-wage workers will announce on Wednesday the timing of a three-day strike that would involve teachers and force the shutdown of Los Angeles public schools, dealing another blow to the education of more than 420,000 students.

The walkout of as many as— expected to take place in the next two weeks — would represent the largest and longest full disruption of education in the nation's second-largest school system since the six-day teachers' . Not even the pandemic, which lasted more than a year in Los Angeles, resulted in a complete halt to academic instruction.

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