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Teachers Strike for Students Rights! from Santee Education Complex High School will stage a one (1) hour morning strike during the normal school day to fight against teacher layoffs that will disproportionately affect socio-economically disadvantaged students and thus violating their civil rights. Santee teachers have received an extremely HIGH amount of termination notices compared to schools with on the Westside or the Valley. Fifty-six (56) layoff notices have gone out at Santee. This would completely decimate the entire math and science departments! Teachers will NOT sign in during the first hour of work and instead will rally outside in front of the school with parents, students and community members. This will launch a series of one hour strikes throughout the city that may accumulate in a ONE day general citywide teachers strike! Teachers at Santee will also call on the Mayor of Los Angeles to stand up for his partnership schools and save teachers and small class sizes. Santee Education Complex is part of Los Angeles Mayor’s Partnership for LA Schools. Friday, March 27th, 2009. 7:30am The central objective/demand will be: To publicly expose that current LAUSD termination notices will disproportionally
affect schools that have low socio-economic levels and thus violating the civil
rights of these students. 1) To call on the Los Angeles Unified School District to imminently halt teacher layoff and increased class sizes that will have negative impact on the students of Los Angeles 2) Call on the Mayor of Los Angeles to stand up and fund his Partnership Schools much like San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently did by using city funds to support schools. Contacts: Jose Lara, Chapter Chair, Santee UTLA josexlara@yahoo.com
What: One Hour Teachers Strike for Students Rights Where: Santee Education Complex 1921 Maple Ave. Los Angeles CA 90011
When: Friday, March 27th, 2009 7:30AM
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