Giving Compass' Take:

· Taylor Swaak at The 74 talks about the factors that contributed to the rise of the Los Angeles teacher strike and explains how negotiations with the district went wrong over the holiday break. 

· What are the demands of teachers involved in the strike? How can these demands be met? What is being done to address the LA teacher strike? 

· Here's more information on the Los Angeles teacher strike. 

Even as the Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles continued negotiations on Friday, the city was preparing for a possible teacher strike come Monday morning. It would be the country’s largest strike in decades, and the first in Los Angeles in a generation.

A recap of how we got here, and eight big developments that happened over the holiday break that brought UTLA several steps closer to striking:

  1. Following a December breakdown, UTLA agreed to return to the bargaining table last Monday
  2. Both sides in December disputed the facts — and whether there was a new offer
  3. L.A. Unified attempted a legal complaint to protect special needs students if there is a strike
  4. L.A. Unified has hired hundreds of substitute teachers in preparation for a strike
  5. UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl held a news conference to call for a cap on charter schools
  6. L.A. Unified released its comprehensive Annual Financial Report, showing massive debt liabilities
  7. The Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News’s editorial boards spoke out against the strike. So did Obama’s former education secretary Arne Duncan
  8. Another California district, Oakland Unified, is getting closer to striking too

Read the full article about the Los Angeles teacher strike by Taylor Swaak at The 74.