Mediation Fails Between LAUSD, Teachers Union; Potential Strike Looms

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A third day of mediation efforts between the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers’ union failed to produce a labor agreement, moving the stalemate into a fact-finding period and one step closer to the district’s first teacher strike since 1989.
The strike would put more than half a million students out of school.
Negotiators for the district and the United Teachers Los Angeles union met with a state mediator Friday – the third se