UTLA Team Meets With LAUSD on Spring Break: LAUSD Wastes Everyone’s Time

At LAUSD’s request, the UTLA Bargaining Team met with the district today in a good faith effort to settle the contract and avert a strike — but LAUSD came with proposals that actually moved us backward.

  • LAUSD withdrew their proposal for class size reduction.
  • LAUSD withdrew what they claimed was $88 million in funding from their Special Education proposal.
  • LAUSD tried to make the UTLA Bargaining Team choose between Special Education staffing or funding for inclusion, PSAs, PSWs, and School Psychologists — and even those options were completely insufficient.
  • LAUSD added 2% in salary in January 2028 and stuck by their unacceptable offer of a one-time 3% bonus for this school year and 4% on July 1, 2026 and 4% on January 1, 2027.
  • No progress on class size enforcement; Special Education;  Early Education; PSAs, PSWs, or School Psychologists; Community Schools; out-of-classroom onsite obligation and duties; or Arts, PE, and elementary preparation time.


UTLA Bargaining Team members cancelled spring break plans to bargain today because LAUSD said they were bringing proposals that could settle the contract and avert a strike — but LAUSD failed to make any progress that the UTLA Bargaining Team could respond to.

“I shortened my vacation to come to bargaining today,” said Roger Whiting, San Fernando Middle School Resource Specialist and Bargaining Team Member. “Unfortunately, the district did not bring a sense of urgency to settle this contract. Instead they tried to pit Special Education against student mental health supports and did not meaningfully engage on key issues like salary. All the issues we’ve brought to the table are critical not only to educators, but to the well-being and success of our students.”

The UTLA team was clear with LAUSD today: “We are prepared to meet when you have a serious set of proposals to try to resolve the contract. Call us. We are here.”

See below for LAUSD’s proposals from today, which are mostly old proposals and issues we have already reached a tentative agreement on.