L.A. voters have sent a clear message to 600k students: Your schools may be crumbling, your libraries may be closed, your class sizes may be unmanageably large, ~90% of you live in poverty and thousands of you are homeless, but who cares? LATstevelopez
Students sit at tables after school at Telfair Elementary in Pacoima, on October 25, 2018.
I can’t say I’m surprised about any of this. When I wrote last week about my chat with L.A. Unified Supt. Austin Beutner and teachers union leader Alex Caputo-Pearl, who put their hopes in Measure EE as a way to add more teachers and support staff and reduce class sizes, I heard from no shortage of critics.
It probably didn’t help that teachers had argued during the strike that the district had a budget surplus, even though that margin will soon disappear. Nor did it help that the district approved a contract it said it couldn’t afford, then asked voters to pay for it after the fact. As hopes for EE’s passage faded Tuesday night, an East L.A. grandmother told me she had voted yes, partly because she wants a nurse at her granddaughter’s school more than just once a week., where nearly a quarter of the students were recently classified as homeless, told me he tried his best to counter social media attacks on Measure EE.
“I think as LAUSD has become so heavily minority, so heavily poor … the public feels it doesn’t have a stake in public education anymore, and they’re willing to let conditions deteriorate,” said Sacks, whose class sizes are as high as 41 students.
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