May 1st, 2009

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So two days ago, I participated in a protest with my school (and others) called the "March of Mourning" to fight for pink-slipped teachers to save their jobs.

Some facts:

• over 50% of the teachers at my school might get laid off come June
• Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) just got a bunch of stimulus $$ -- half of it will be spent on saving teachers' jobs, but not all of it (which means a couple of thousand teachers might still lose their job in LAUSD)
• LAUSD could choose to spend ALL the stimulus $$ on saving jobs, but the board members are choosing to save some of the money to use for the year after (to save teachers' jobs and not further exacerbate the financial situation)

Anyway, the REAL point of this post was to tell you that MY SCHOOL WAS ON NATIONAL TV! AND MY COWORKERS! AND SOME OF THE STUDENTS AT JOHN LIECHTY MIDDLE SCHOOL! Though I fully participated in the march, I didn't make it on TV.

I've embedded the CBS Nightly News from today (April 29th) and if you scroll to minute 9:45, you'll see some footage from the protest and from some classrooms in our school. (You'll have to get through the commercial at the beginning first).

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