UTLA Members Vote 92% YES to Ratify Landmark Agreement

The results are in! UTLA members voted 92% YES to ratify the 2025-2027 agreement. A total of 26,745 members voted — with 24,665 voting yes and 2,080 voting no.

The next step is for the school board to vote on the agreement for ratification.

“This agreement takes our past victories another step forward in building the schools our students deserve. In 2019, we won first-ever enforceable class size caps, contract language for Special Education, and more that the district initially claimed they couldn’t afford. In 2023, we were out on the picket lines alongside SEIU 99, to demonstrate that UTLA solidarity is a verb. We won even more gains on staffing and class size, a major raise, and contract language on common good demands the district had said were outside the scope of bargaining. Now, LAUSD knows we are not bluffing when we say we are ready to strike. In this agreement, we won a reformed salary scale that was decades overdue and so much more that keeps on building on our past wins.

“37,000 UTLA members pushed LAUSD to spend more in our classrooms, to invest in educators, staff, and students — instead of more outside contracts and adding to the billions in reserves. That’s powerful.

“Plus, thousands of UTLA members knocking on doors and talking to voters in the last two election cycles shored up a pro-educator school board majority with Dr. Rocío Rivas as a champion on the board for our contract demands. Throughout this contract campaign, she has been a fierce leader on the board to get us to a fair settlement. I can’t wait to hit the sidewalks in May to get Rocío re-elected.

With every campaign, UTLA members tilt the scale of power a little further in the direction of LA educators, students, and families.” —Cecily Myart-Cruz, UTLA President