L.A. Teachers Want Free Child Care Before Returning To In-Person Learning

The Los Angeles teachers union is demanding that its teachers be given free child care for their own children before being forced to return to in-classroom instruction, according to a Monday report from Politico.

California currently lags behind most other states in offering students a return to classrooms following a decision to make instruction remote during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to EdSource, with “much of the state” remaining in distance learning, “even as the majority of the country’s schools have started welcoming students back to campus in some capacity.”