The L.A. teachers strike, explained

Everything you need to know about the education crisis roiling the Los Angeles Unified School District

The Los Angeles teacher strike.
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The Los Angeles teachers' strike is all about the money.

Okay, that's putting it somewhat pithily. It's about class sizes that are too big, teachers who are underpaid, staffs that are too small, resources that are too few, infrastructure that's crumbling, and low-income and special-needs students who aren't getting enough help. But while brute force spending may not be a sufficient precondition to totally solve all those problems, it's certainly a necessary precondition.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.