Holding plastic-covered signs on rain-drenched picket lines, more than 30,000 Los Angeles public-school teachers began a long-planned strike on Monday, the first in three decades in the district. As they demanded higher pay, smaller classes and more support staff in the schools, teachers said they were also fighting for more respect for public schools. The strike affects roughly 500,000 students at 900 schools in the district, the second-largest in the nation. The schools remained open, staffed by substitutes hired by the city, but many parents chose to keep their children at home, either out of support for the strike or because they did not want them inside schools with a skeletal staff. Read more https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/lausd-teachers-strike.html
