The union wants smaller class sizes, more counsellors and full-time nurses, and a 12 per cent raise over three years. But union president Keith Brown said the teachers will strike unless the district dramatically changes its spending approach. “We will strike for our students, we will strike for education justice, we will strike for racial justice,” Brown said at a news conference Saturday. Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles, staged a six-day strike last month. That walkout ended when teachers settled on a 6 per cent raise and promises of smaller class sizes and the addition of more nurses and counsellors.

Source: thestar February 16, 2019 22:11 UTC