Los Angeles teachers began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district. They're fighting for smaller classes, more nurses, librarians, and counselors, and "to defend the civic institution of public education" from privatization. Photo: Chris Brooks

Los Angeles teachers strike to defend public schools from the privatizers

Last spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district.

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