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A sweeping agreement announced Friday between unions and Los Angeles school officials will result in a longer school year, a return to a three-week winter break and a reboot of controversial acceleration days.The deal also includes the resolution of legal issues, including some that could have proved to be important test cases for future labor negotiations.

Striking Los Angeles Unified School District employees and their supporters, including teachers, rally outside LAUSD headquarters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 during the first day of a three-day strike.(Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Striking Los Angeles Unified School District employees and their supporters, including teachers, rally outside LAUSD headquarters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 during the first day of a three-day strike.

Los Angeles Unified officials are mounting a last-ditch legal challenge to stall or prevent a three-day strike that would shut down classrooms across the nation's second-largest school district starting on Tuesday.The district has asked state labor regulators to issue an injunction to halt the strike, alleging that it is illegal.

The Oakland Unified School District has settled a week-long strike with its teachers union a deal that will boost pay a total of $70 million.But as the administration figures out how to pay for those raises, could it also face stiff fines for the time its 34,000 students went without teachers?District officials had no answers early this week, but the experience of another large Northern California school district's lengthy strike last year is sobering: The Sacramento City Unified School District expects to be hit with a hefty $47 million in penalties after a two-week strike left it short of the state's required 180-day instruction time.

A few days ahead of his May 15 inauguration, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson announced that Jennifer "Jen" Johnson, the Chicago Teachers Union's recent chief of staff, will serve as his deputy mayor for education, youth and human services.Jennifer Johnson was one of several senior staff members, including the Mayor-elect's chief financial officer and policy and budget directors announced Thursday.

Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas escalated their attacks on one another as Chicago's mayoral race enters the final week of campaigning before the April 4 election.Monday morning, Vallas held a rally with trade unions supporting his campaign where he denounced an effort to place lawn signs around the city linking him to former President Donald Trump.

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters denied the incumbent, Lori Lightfoot, a second term, a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the third-largest US city.Vallas, a former schools chief executive backed by the police union, and Johnson, a Cook county commissioner endorsed by the teachers union, advanced to the 4 April runoff after none of nine candidates was able to secure more than 50% of the vote.

The powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1 threw its support behind Brandon Johnson on Wednesday as businessman Willie Wilson endorsed Paul Vallas, the latest jockeying for support by the two mayoral candidates ahead of the April 4 runoff election."Brandon is an organizer, a teacher, a Cook County commissioner and a longtime community activist, and most importantly for me and my union, he is one of us," Local 1 President Genie Kastrup said.

The Oakland teachers' strike has entered its second day Friday and a mediator is attempting to make progress in negotiations after both sides strongly maintained their positions throughout a tension-filled day Thursday.State Superintendent Tony Thurmond offered Thursday to step in as a mediator, just as he did in 2019.

CHICAGO When Bobby L. Rush, the Black Panther turned congressman turned elder statesman of this city's South Side, stood last week to endorse Paul Vallas for mayor, the first question he confronted featured his own words.How could a man who just two and a half years ago called Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police the most rabid, racist body of criminal lawlessness by police in the land stand behind Mr. Vallas, the candidate endorsed by that police union?

Oakland teachers at 14 middle and high schools are planning a walkout on Friday.But, the teachers union has not sanctioned a strike.Meanwhile, LA educators are back in the classroom today after reaching an agreement late Thursday.Local assistances centers are set to open for residents in San Bernardino County Communities in the San Bernardino Mountains, east of Los Angeles, are once again struggling to dig out of more snow following this week's latest atmospheric river.

A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff has started a three-day strike with support from the district's teachers, effectively stopping classes for more than a half million students in the nation's second-largest school system.

Here is a guide for coping with the three-day Los Angeles Unified School District walkout set to begin Tuesday morning.The basics
The walkout - which will last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - would include as many as65,000 workers.Schools would be closed during a strike.That is leaving parents scrambling.

Teachers union leaders called off a strike set for today at the Covina-Valley Unified School District after reaching a tentative agreement late Wednesday night with officials of the 13,400-student school system."Schools will be open and will continue on a normal schedule tomorrow, Dec. 1," Supt.

More than 300 picketers demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Covina-Valley Unified School District on Wednesday morning as negotiators began last-ditch efforts to avoid a teachers strike scheduled for Thursday in the 13,400-student school system.A primary point of contention is proposed changes to health benefits.

Six candidates are competing for three seats on the Berkeley Unified school board.Top (left to right): Ka'Dijah Brown, Mike Chang, Tatiana Guerreiro Ramos.Bottom: Norma Harrison, Reichi Lee, Jennifer Shanoski.Credit: Marina Small, Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight Voters and candidates await the results of an at-large election for three of the five seats on the Berkeley school board that has drawn an unusual amount of attention this year.

Most Santa Clara County school districts do not impose term limits, which has enabled some board members to remain in office for decades.This lack of term limits means boards that never change can become unresponsive to the communities they serve, experts said.But board members themselves said maintaining historical knowledge can provide decadeslong leadership that makes a difference.

By Ali Tadayon | EdSource Weeks ahead of a potential strike, West Contra Costa Unified and its teachers union, the United Teachers of Richmond, have struck a tentative contract agreement that gives raises this year and next to teachers and school staff without the district having to lay people off.For the next two years, at least.

Four candidates are vying for two open spots on the Los Angeles Board of Education in contests that could affect the oversight and growth of charter schools and shift money from some schools to benefit campuses in high-poverty neighborhoods affected by violence.Check back here after polls close at 8 p.m. for the latest vote totals.

Ka'Dijah Brown, Mike Chang and Jennifer Shanosk won a seat on the Berkeley Unified school board.Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/ CatchLight Ka'Dijah Brown, Mike Chang and Jennifer Shanoski have earned seats on the Berkeley school board after all the ballots were counted Monday night.Reichi Lee, who raised the most money of any school board candidate in recent history, finished fourth, missing a seat by 1,096 votes.

The California Department of Justice has launched a fact-finding mission into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students' rights to equal access to education.Early this year when the Oakland Unified School District announced it was closing a bunch of schools over budget woes and declining enrollment (a plan whose current incarnation is to close seven schools and merge two others), the response from teachers and parents was very Bay Area: hunger strikes, student walkouts, and activists occupying a shuttered school.

A year of instability  and often chaos  at the Oakland Unified School District is likely culminating in new leadership, with retired teacher Jennifer Brouhard, union organizer Valarie Bachelor and business executive Nick Resnick in the lead for board seats.With several thousand votes counted in each race and another large set of results expected to be released Monday, the election could mark a change in direction for a school community rocked by controversial campus closures, intensely disputed internal finances and concerns over student safety.

A tight race between two Los Angeles school board candidates with big-money supporters got tighter with the release of the latest vote tally Thursday.Since the end of the first count early Wednesday morning, the gap between Maria Brenes and Rocio Rivas has shrunk from 852 votes to 203 votes.Brenes leads with 50.17% of the votes to Rivas' 49.83% in their bids to represent District 2, which includes downtown, adjacent neighborhoods and much of the Eastside.

Los Angeles school board President Kelly Gonez is in a surprisingly tight contest with challenger Marvin Rodriguez for a Board of Education seat representing the east San Fernando Valley.In a second board contest - to represent downtown and the Eastside - Maria Brenes holds a small lead over Rocio Rivas.

Iran's civil nuclear arm said hackers breached the email system used by a company operating the country's sole nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.It was unclear whether the breached system contained classified material.The protests first focused on Iran's state-mandated hijab, or headscarf, for women but transformed into one of the most serious challenges to the country's ruling clerics.