Los Angeles Teachers Win Pay Increase, Caps on Charter Schools

A list of the benefits teachers gained from the six-day strike:

• A much-deserved 6 percent pay raise with no contingencies.

• A nurse in every school five days a week.

• Hard caps on class size that will lower class sizes immediately in 2019-20, with more improvements every year after.

• A commitment to reduce testing by 50 percent.

• A teacher librarian in every secondary school five days a week.

• Investment in community schools.

• A clear pathway to capping charters.

• Hard caps on special education caseloads and release time for testing.

• Important wins for adult education, early childhood education and substitute educators.

• Progress on common-good demands such as ending random searches, expanding green space and supporting immigrant families.

For more information, read the full announcement here.