{"id":1900436,"date":"2023-03-17T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-making-six-figures-would-see-pay-hike-under-socialist-backed-green-new-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:36:25","slug":"la-teachers-making-six-figures-would-see-pay-hike-under-socialist-backed-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-making-six-figures-would-see-pay-hike-under-socialist-backed-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Teachers Making Six Figures Would See Pay Hike Under Socialist-Backed &#8216;Green New Deal&#8217;"},"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\">28<\/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-making-six-figures-would-see-pay-hike-under-socialist-backed-green-new-deal%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=1900436&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-->\n<div>\n<p>Los Angeles socialists support a strike by teachers&#8217; unions for huge raises to their six-figure wages. They claim that the strike helps their ability to compete in the market. &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; Public schools<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three days of strike action by the United Teachers of Los Angeles are planned for next week. This is in an effort transform city schools into a &#8220;green&#8221; social services hub. Los Angeles chapter of Democratic Socialists of America identified the teachers&#8217; plan in its &#8220;Green New Deal for L.A. Public Schools&#8221; The group has made it their priority agenda item for this year. But buried beneath the teachers&#8217; sundry progressive demands is a 20 percent salary hike over two years for Los Angeles teachers, who on average\u00a0make $159,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers&#8217; unions are using supposedly progressive and high-minded causes to win professional victories in the socialist-backed strike. Randi Weingarten, the president of American Federation of Teachers, advocated for equity and opposed the closing of school by union-backed teachers during the pandemic. President of the National Education Association Randi Weingarten stated that the union would lobby for transgender issues, gun control, and abortion in addition to its fight against charter schools last summer. To gain support from other powerful political organizations, the California teachers&#8217; union is lobbying for gun control, flavored tobacco bans and LGBT issues.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers&#8217; union lifted elements of the DSA&#8217;s\u00a0Green New Deal\u00a0for schools, such as demands for free public transportation for students, &#8220;climate literacy&#8221; Courses taught through a &#8220;racial justice lens,&#8221; Campus parks and more school solar panels. The Teachers&#8217; Platform, titled &#8220;Beyond Recovery,&#8221; Also, the union wants city rent controls, taxpayer funded parental leave, subsidized housing for unused school property, smaller classrooms and a crackdown against charter schools. Administrators are also being asked by the union to lobby the federal government for permanent COVID-19 funding and to allow the state to increase its cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>According to AOL, Los Angeles public school teachers average $159,000 annually, including benefits. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Analysis of Transparent California district salaries. It is nearly twice the city&#8217;s $67,500 average salary. The strike would shut schools for three days in the state&#8217;s largest district, where kids are still reeling from learning losses and behavioral problems incurred during California&#8217;s longest-in-the-nation closures. It would affect 420,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The United Teachers of Los Angeles didn&#8217;t respond to the<em>\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em>The request for comment was made by\u00a0The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> was unable to find contact information for the DSA\u00a0chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Carvalho, the district superintendent, said that teachers&#8217; union is co-coordinating their strike with the SEIU local chapter for low-wage school workers. The union has refused to enter into normal negotiations and won&#8217;t compromise on its demands. On Wednesday, he held a press conference to pledge to do all he could to prevent the strike. The Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America joined the two unions to cheer him on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Socialists support public school workers!&#8221; Los Angeles DSA chapter tweets<\/p>\n<p>The teacher socialist backers who supported the pay hike seem to have reacted against the fact that this massive increase in wages seems to be counter-intuitive. &#8220;believe that working people should run both the economy and society \u2026 to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Los Angeles schools saw a massive exodus and the unions and their socialist allies are now engaging in antics. About 20,000 students quit school or moved on to better schools in order to avoid forced remote learning. Los Angeles school officials foresee more dwindling to come\u2014and a corresponding hit to their budgets. According to projections, enrollment will shrink by almost 30% by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/california\/la-teachers-making-six-figures-would-see-pay-hike-under-socialist-backed-green-new-deal\/\">LA Teachers Earn Six Figures Under Socialist-Backed &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles socialists are helping a teachers&#8217; union strike for massive raises to their six-figure salaries, saying the strike boosts their &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; for public schools. 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