{"id":186788,"date":"2021-03-02T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186788"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:00:57","slug":"la-teachers-union-claims-california-is-propagating-structural-racism-by-reopening-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-union-claims-california-is-propagating-structural-racism-by-reopening-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Teachers Union Claims California Is \u2018Propagating Structural Racism\u2019 By Reopening Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-teachers-union-claims-california-is-propagating-structural-racism-by-reopening-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/School.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>United Teachers of Los Angeles, California\u2019s largest teachers union, assailed Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s plan for a statewide transition back to in-person learning as \u201cpropagating structural racism\u201d Monday, and demanded that schools remain shuttered until all teachers and staff are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom announced the plan to re-open schools over the weekend. It does not mandate a return to in-person learning, but does include nearly $2 billion in cash incentives for school districts that welcome students back into classrooms before the end of the 2020-2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The incentive program \u201cincludes districts in counties that are still in the state\u2019s purple tier, with infection rates higher than what teachers unions have said are too unsafe for reopening,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/california\/story\/2021\/03\/02\/la-teachers-union-slams-state-plan-as-propagating-structural-racism-1366367\">Politico reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference Monday, the head of UTLA claimed that the plan not only put teachers in danger of contracting COVID-19 but also perpetuated \u201cstructural racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are being unfairly targeted by people who are not experiencing this disease in the same ways as students and families are in our communities. If this was a rich person\u2019s disease, we would\u2019ve seen a very different response. We would not have the high rates of infections and deaths,\u201d UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said, per Politico. \u201cNow educators are asked instead to sacrifice ourselves, the safety of our students and the safety of our schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Primarily, though, Myart-Cruz wanted to remind the local school district that the teachers union retains the right to negotiate over a return to classrooms and that the union will demand, at least, that all teachers and staff receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before going to in-person instruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is that the plan does not supersede our legal right to bargain working conditions with LAUSD and our continued determination to do so,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also accused Newsom of not \u201cfollowing the science\u201d on coronavirus transmission, even though the science weighs overwhelmingly in favor of allowing children to return to classrooms. Instead, she said that Newsom was following \u201cwhite, wealthy parents\u201d who are \u201cdriving the push behind a rushed return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flaw in California\u2019s plan, it seems, at least according to the LA teachers union is that it ties the additional grant money directly to re-opening schools, and the teachers union would prefer that same money be distributed without strings attached.<\/p>\n<p>The LA union is, of course, far from the only union to use the return to classrooms as a bargaining chip. The Chicago Teachers Union tried to halt that city\u2019s reopening plan by demanding, similarly, that all teachers be vaccinated before returning to classrooms and that teachers who lived with or cared for a \u201cvulnerable\u201d individual be allowed to remain outside of the classroom indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Chicago teachers returned to work, though, without major concessions on the part of the school district.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been hesitant to weigh in on whether and how students should return to classrooms, although the CDC director did note that complete teacher vaccination is not a necessary prerequisite to in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Teachers of Los Angeles, California\u2019s largest teachers union, assailed Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s plan for a statewide transition back to in-person learning as \u201cpropagating structural racism\u201d Monday, and demanded that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274566,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/School.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"LA Teachers Union Claims California Is \u2018Propagating Structural Racism\u2019 By Reopening Schools","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/School.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"LA Teachers Union Claims California Is \u2018Propagating Structural Racism\u2019 By Reopening Schools","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}