They're showing "Blackboard Jungle"
The LAUSD and negotiators for 30,000 striking teachers agreed to return to the bargaining table on Thursday, with Mayor Eric Garcetti acting as mediator. The breakthrough capped the third day of a strike in the nation's second-largest school district. On Wednesday, only about a quarter of the nearly 500,000 affected students went to schools that, as you'd expect with a staff of substitute teachers, have essentially turned into movie theaters.
From the Rust Never Sleeps Desk:
Darrell E. Issa to be Director of the Trade and Development Agency.
The Fight for West Virginia: Revival, Recovery, and Richard Ojeda
It’s November 2018, and the United States lurches towards a critical mid-term election with democracy at a crossroads.
In West Virginia, State Senator Richard Ojeda, a former Major in the U.S. Army, runs for Congress as a Democrat in a deeply Republican district. Can he flip a red seat blue?
Can laid-off coal miners learn computer coding and find employment in the new digital economy?
And can a group of young woman band together after opioid addiction to successfully restart their lives?
This is The Fight for West Virginia.
This is why teachers in Los Angeles are on strike.
More than 25,000 teachers in Los Angeles won't be going to work Monday after a breakdown in contract talks. The strike in the nation's second largest school district affects more than 1,000 schools and more than 600,000 students. A funding battle between teachers and the districts follows similar walkouts last year in six states.
Will a Californian make it to the White House in 2020?
Sen. Kamala Harris, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, megadonor Tom Steyer and Rep. Eric Swalwell certainly hope so.
Unless, of course, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can make it happen sooner.
The rate and severity of shootings are accelerating.
"The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history came in October, when a gunman pent up in a Las Vegas hotel tower showered gunfire on concertgoers across the street, leaving 59 people dead and more than 500 others injured. A month later, a man opened fire on churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26. There were dozens of smaller-scale events this year. The Gun Violence Archive reports more than 14,000 people were killed and over 29,000 were injured in mass shootings in 2017. That might make it the worst year on record. (The map shown here does not include incidents after October 2.)
quote unquote: Thomas Jefferson
I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them,
and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." -- Thomas Jefferson, writing to H. Tompkinson (aka Samuel Kercheval), July 12, 1816
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