Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore joins Larry Mantle for his monthly check-in on AirTalk. We also discuss the looming teachers’ as L.A. Schools, teachers’ union remain at odds in contract dispute; analyze the latest numbers on homelessness from HUD report; and more.
Hearing from LAUSD parents about ongoing labor negotiations between school district and teacher unions
Negotiations between Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 33,000 teachers, continue to unfold.
UTLA
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a news conference at 10:00a.m. Wednesday morning. Details of the conference remain unclear and the dispute is still up in the air.
The conference comes after the release of a fact-finding report yesterday and a teacher rally in downtown Los Angeles Saturday morning. The district, which has more than 640,000 K-12 students, hasn’t seen a formal strike by teachers in almost 30 years.
If you’re a LAUSD parent, what are your thoughts on the ongoing conflict? Do you support or oppose teachers going on strike? Call us at 866-893-5722.
Guest:
Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an LAUSD parent group; former public school principal in New York
LAPD Chief Moore: Pedestrian safety, traffic enforcement, illegal street racing and more
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore joins Larry Mantle for his monthly check-in on AirTalk. Topics discussed include:
Traffic enforcement and refreshed speed limits
Illegal street racing update
Jump in homeless crime
Venice boardwalk enforcement
Guest:
Michel Moore, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; he tweets
Despite release of fact-finders report, L.A. Schools and teachers’ union remain at odds in contract dispute
The latest round of contract negotiations between Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles appears to be coming to a head after the release of a fact-finding report that was the last legal step necessary before teachers would be able to formally strike for the first time in almost 30 years.
Union leaders have
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— United Teachers Los Angeles (@UTLAnow) December 19, 2018
a 10 a.m. press conference on Wednesday morning, though it’s unclear right now what they’ll be announcing.
The report was designed to include suggestions for both sides on how they might find common ground, but there’s no legal requirement that either the district or teachers implement any of the impartial panel’s recommendations. Teachers are asking for a 6.5 percent raise retroactive to July of 2016, a particular sticking point in negotiations, and the district has offered a 3 percent raise retroactive to July 1, 2017 and an additional 3 percent for the current year. On Tuesday, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner suggested during a news conference that the union had accepted the district’s offer for compensation, which prompted a strong rebuke from union leaders who scolded Beutner for the comment and demanded that he retract it.
For more on the negotiations and fact-finding report from KPCC education reporter Kyle Stokes on LAist.com, click here.
Guests:
Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles
Kyle Stokes, education reporter at KPCC, who is at the UTLA headquarters in Koreatown
Homelessness down slightly in LA. CA has nearly half of all unsheltered people in the country. We analyze the latest numbers from HUD report
The Annual Homeless Assessment Report from HUD was released Monday, and while the the numbers nationwide increased, the count in Los Angeles and San Diego shrank slightly.
Across the county, the numbers of those experiencing homelessness went up by about 2,000 from last year, with about 553,000 people experiencing homelessness in a single night. The numbers of veterans experiencing homelessness went down 5.4 percent from 2017 to 2018 and people experiencing homelessness in families declined as well (down almost 23 percent from 2007 to 2018).
After an increase in the numbers of people experiencing homelessness last year, there was a drop of about 3 percent in Los Angeles. However, according to the report, 47 percent of all unsheltered people in the U.S. are in California. So why does California have such a disproportionately high number of people who are experiencing homelessness? To what can we attribute the slight decline of homelessness in L.A.?
We gather a roundtable to localize and analyze the numbers.
Guests:
Peter Lynn, head of the Los Angeles Homeless Authority (LAHSA)
Andy Bales, CEO at Union Rescue Mission, a private Christian homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row
Larry Haynes, executive director at Mercy House, a homeless housing and service agency headquartered in Santa Ana
The formula for success: teaching kids to fail better
The perfect GPA, the shining internships, the endless extracurricular activities are the external markers of success for many students.
But this drive for perfection in school, some educators fear, is taking an unhealthy toll on the lives of many students.
As such, some universities are thinking about a new approach in college education: teaching students the value of failure -- and how to recuperate from it.
Larry talks with Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn, who’s written a piece looking at said efforts by some universities, as well as two education thinkers about the idea.
Guests:
Melissa Korn, reporter at the Wall Street Journal who covers higher education; she tweets
Rabbi Michael Cohen, director of innovation at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles Boys High School (YULA); he tweets
Rachel Simmons, leadership development specialist at the Smith College; she tweets