Be invenitos. That's California for welcome to the April 16th emergency edition of National Reviews.

Radio Free California podcast. I'm Will Swain, CEO of the California Policy Center.

You can find my colleagues and me at California Policy Center.org. Two of those colleagues are with us

today to discuss big news this week in public education. We'll talk in a moment to attorney Emily Ray about

her request for U.S. Supreme Court Review, asking SCOTUS to look into the role of a

little-known California Administrative Court that has undermined parental authority in the state's

schools. But first, we're going to look into LA Unified's backbreaking, maybe even a heartbreaking

deal with the United Teachers of Los Angeles to discuss that story and its

implications for all Californians. I'm thrilled, as always, to bring into the Radio Free California

podcast headquarters, my friend and colleague Lance Christensen. Lance is VP of Government Affairs and

Education Policy at CPC. Lance, just hours before the week's April 14th strike deadline, UTLA announced it had reached a bargain with the nation's second largest school district.

Why should anybody care?

Well, first of all, you call this an emergency pondrums.

That's like every day that ends in Hawaii in California.

I mean, what goes on in Los Angeles universe just seems to do constant fruit for a story or an

emergency and it's such a problem.

But we're talking about LUSD today and I'm just surprised that the district still stands. I'm shocked that not just about the

whole strike scenario, but that they actually have a functioning workforce to show up when all

these people want to fall in and get paid to do nothing. Well, so what happened here,

though, because the district has been saying our own

internal research, which has been published, Mark Jaffe has written about LA Unified's real

dire financial circumstances. He predicts that if the, this was, he was writing before the

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