Striking teachers in LA reach tentative settlement with district

Los Angeles public school teachers reached a tentative settlement with school officials Tuesday in order to end a weeklong strike that has affected some 500,000 students.The settlement -- reached after 21 hours of marathon talks that ended early Tuesday -- was set to be voted on by the roughly 30,000 members of the teachers union later in the day and classes are due to resume on Wednesday."The strike nobody wanted is now behind us," Los Angeles United School District superintendent Austin Beutne