Giving Compass' Take:

• The United Teachers Union in Los Angeles is preparing to strike on Monday if they do not receive better pay, more school funding and student access to proper mental and physical health care. 

• How can donors help provide funding for our educational systems? How can we ensure students and teachers alike are being cared for?

• Here's an article on potentially expecting a rise of teacher protests in 2019.

A nationwide teachers’ revolt that last year saw walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma and other largely Republican-run states has now spread to California, where teachers and support staff in the vast, sprawling, predominantly low-income Los Angeles Unified School District are on the verge of striking.

About 31,000 members of the local teachers’ union are threatening to walk off the job on Monday to demand better pay, lower class sizes and improved student access to nurses, psychological counselors and other key services.

Their union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has been fighting with the school district – America’s second largest – for more than a year. Both sides agree that schools are underfunded and teachers underpaid, but that has not prevented trust between the two sides from eroding to a vanishing point.

Read the full article on the Los Angeles teacher's strike by Andrew Gumbel at The Guardian