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Additional Calendars

-LAUSD Payroll calendar
-School year calendars
-UTLA governance meetings

UTLA Leadership Conference

Upcoming Events

Independence Day (Jul 04, 2009)
NEA RA Travel Day (Jul 07, 2009)
Capably Disabled Teachers Committee (Jul 09, 2009)
Optional Area Meetings (Jul 15, 2009)
Board of Directors (optional) (Jul 22, 2009)
Optional Area Meetings (Aug 05, 2009)

How much did the RIFs affect your school site?

United Teachers Los Angeles is a union of professionals representing 48,000 public school teachers and health and human services professionals in the Los Angeles area.

rally NoRifs Summer is here, but talks continue
Although many students and teachers have started summer break, UTLA officers continue talks with LAUSD to stop class-size increases and save jobs. Some new ideas have been put on the table, and if, or when, any news breaks, we will post details immediately. If an agreement is reached, a vote would take place during the summer.

The fight continues
Stop class size increases and layoffs!
- Interested in a possible recall of school board members?
- Other Upcoming Actions and Recent Past Actions

- LAUSD budget reveals that concessions would NOT have saved RIF jobs
- UTLA exposes LAUSD: Stimulus Money Outrage! More elementary out-of-classroom positions have been saved than teaching jobs (Media coverage)
- RIF Information (RIF June 12th Recission Roster, RIF basics, Q&As, displacement info, benefits, etc.)
- Unemployment Insurance Application: Clarification of questions

Contract Negotiations

On June 18th, UTLA members overwhelmingly approve contract agreement
- Results by Area
- Full text of contract agreement

Furlough Days
- A False Choice

Ongoing Boycotts
- Boycotts of periodic assessment will continue!
- If you, or someone you know, has been written up, tell us your experience

Bargaining Flash
- Why I'm joining the Boycotts (2-16-09)

District Budget Cuts

UTLA to fight pay cuts - Pay cuts at LAUSD proposed in the form of furlough days and elimination of buy-back day.

Related Education News

"Liechty M.S. students denied diplomas for protesting Monica Garcia" - Univision (6-22-09)
"No Apology, No Diploma" - NBC (6-22-09)
"Principal Withholds Diplomas from Graduates After Silent Protest" -LAist (6-22-09)

"Job-Training Center Still Training No One" - NBC (6-20-09)

“As state cuts funding, more districts turn to voters” - LA Times (6-15-09)

"Ways LAUSD can save Teachers" -NBC Report (5-29-09)

Innovation & Reform

- Innovation Division
- Belmont Zone of Choice
- Expanded School Based Management (ESBMM)

MORE INNOVATION & SCHOOL REFORM...

Announcements

UTLA/CFT radio spots
For fair tax solution to our budget problems.
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UTLA Store
Temporarily closed until September

UTLA Leadership Conference (August 21-23)
Details

MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS ....

Media Coverage

June 18: Teachers end 3-week hunger strike

June 17: LAUSD teachers, supporters march on Cortines' home (CBS)

June 9: UTLA press conference exposing LAUSD mismanagement of federal stimulus money

June 5: UTLA helps parents prepare for summer

June: Teachers hunger strike to protest layoffs

MORE MEDIA COVERAGE...

Recent Actions

June 9: Community March & Rally at the School Board

May 26: March & Rally at the School Board

May 15: Picketing, civil disobedience, arrests and major UTLA rally

OTHER RECENT ACTIONS....

The LAUSD Waste Basket

Something Fishy at LAUSD: $13,000 for Sushi Maker
The "LAUSD Waste Basket" highlights a sushi-making machine that sat on a school shelf unused for six years.

MORE LAUSD WASTE....