All Things Considered The School Board's View Of The Los Angeles Teacher Strike NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nick Melvoin, vice president of the Los Angeles Unified School District board of education, about the walkout of 31,000 teachers' union members.
All Things Considered L.A. Student Reporter Discusses Ongoing Teachers' Strike NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Carmen Gonzalez, a student reporter for Boyle Heights Beat, about the teachers' strike in Los Angeles.
Gov. Kate Brown Demands Big Educational And Environmental Changes For the first time in her tenure, Gov. Kate Brown has a full four-year term stretching ahead of her — and the State of the State address she gave Monday reflected an ambitious agenda from raising billions to stabilize the state’s public schools to curbing carbon emissions.
Under Rainy Skies, Los Angeles Teachers Take To The Picket Lines Educators and their supporters gathered outside of schools Monday, then converged near Los Angeles City Hall in a sea of umbrellas, ponchos and signs. LA last saw a teacher strike nearly 30 years ago.
All Things Considered Teachers In LA Prepare To Strike Monday: 'It's So Much Bigger Than A Pay Raise' Teachers in Los Angeles plan to go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 30 years. The union is asking for increased salaries, smaller class sizes and more nurses and librarians.
Weekend Edition Sunday 'This Is Our Life': LA Teachers' Union Set To Strike For Better Conditions, More Resources On Monday, more than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers could go on strike — the result of failed negotiations between the LA teachers' union and school district. Half a million students would be affected.
Weekend Edition Saturday Los Angeles Teachers' Union Says It's Ready To Strike Despite Friday negotiations, no agreement was reached between the teachers' union and the Los Angeles school district. Teachers plan to go on strike on Monday.
Seattle Public Schools, beset by late buses all year, prepares for Viadoom Seattle School District is taking steps to reduce the impact of the viaduct closure on the 55,000 children who come and go from nearly 100 schools each weekday.
Report: College Students Are Hungry And Government Programs Could Do More To Help A federal report finds many undergraduates are too hungry to learn, and don't have enough information to access the federal resources available to help.
All Things Considered L.A. Teachers Poised To Strike For More Pay And Student Services NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume as more than 30,000 teachers in the city could strike as early as Thursday. They're fighting for more pay and student services.