UTLA President-designate Cecily Myart-Cruz told EdSource that they disagreed on whether teachers should be given the flexibility to set their own schedules and whether they should ask to teach via live video. Although at home, Los Angeles students will have a predictable learning plan that will look like a normal school day when the fall semester begins in two weeks, as part of a preliminary agreement on the teaching rules that will be met by teachers and the district. The union also succeeded in securing what Caputo-Pearl called the „best deal in the United States“ for substitute teachers. The school starts in Los Angeles in just a few weeks, and LAUSD has finally reached a preliminary agreement with the teachers` union on how to proceed with distance learning. The agreement also includes benefits for students, which stipulates that from March 13, students will not have a lower grade than their grade. Your grades can only improve the rest of the school year. This policy is consistent with the state`s guidelines. An agreement in the state`s largest district, which cares for 600,000 students, will certainly serve as a guide for districts across California where negotiations are underway with teachers` unions on organizing distance education. When heads of state urged districts to end German teaching for the rest of the school year in order to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, they also called for districts to offer quality distance education programs for the state`s six million students. Although the state has pledged its support, it has not concretely dictated how these programmes will be implemented. The agreement is expected to provide students with a more predictable learning plan, similar to a normal school day, although they do so remotely, as campuses remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nothing is decided by the union.

The union is negotiating. If you don`t like the result, register it with your elected officials who have also decided.