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Black Lives Matter Rally Causes Rift Between Teachers Union and School Police. Cop Groups Investigate After Daily Wire Article

Jeffrey Cawood

An upcoming Black Lives Matter rally has created a rift between the union that represents Los Angeles public school teachers and the police force that protects more than 640,000 students enrolled in the nation’s second-largest school system.

The fallout comes after The Daily Wire published an article two weeks ago titled, “Teachers Union Teams With Black Lives Matter To Organize Students Against School Police.” The president of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), which speaks for upward of 33,000 educators, nurses, and counselors in the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD), described the headline as “unfortunate and misleading.”

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