Teachers in New Haven, California, have been on strike since May 20. The superintendent is intransigent.
The strike has lasted longer than the Los Angeles or Oakland teachers’ strikes.
For more than two weeks, 585 brave New Haven teachers have been standing united for the schools their students deserve, on strike for as long as it takes to get a fair, student-centered agreement.
Since New Haven Teachers Association (NHTA) first walked off the job and onto picket lines on May 20, New Haven Unified School District’s (NHUSD) superintendent and managers have stomped out of negotiations numerous times and the New Haven School Board even walked out of a board meeting while a student was speaking.
In addition to this disrespectful and downright boorish behavior, NHUSD Superintendent Arlando Smith has refused to listen to reason and work toward a fair, student-centered settlement. Smith even suggested that Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond was not welcome in New Haven in his attempt to mediate an agreement between the two sides.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Sounds like New Haven’s school board and their “nasty” puppet superintendent belong to the charter school money-sucking, lying, vampire machine that is built on an autocratic philosophy supporting a cancerous capitalist kleptocracy.
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From the eastbaytimes, 2-5-19: Arlando Smith, who for seven years has served as either co-superintendent or superintendent at New Haven Unified School District, will retire at the end of the school year in June, he announced recently.
Will he hang in for the negotiations or flip out at the end of June? Hope somebody more reasonable replaces him but I doubt it. It will probably be another administrative knucklehead because the school board appears to be totally uncompromising. Best wishes to the brave teachers.
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Meanwhile in New Haven, CONNECTICUT, public school kids are organizing and rising up, resisting budget cuts from a pro-privatizing Super who wants to slash 53 teacher positions. Power to the people!! (n.b. great comments at end of article)
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/teacher_budget_kimber/
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Stand strong, New Haven educators! We are with you every step of the way on your picket lines. The CTA is there for you. I look back on our strike in Los Angeles as one of the best things I ever got to do. So proud of us! Sorry Bernie, but I have to borrow your campaign slogan for a sec: Not me. Us.
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All of these districts have the Boards and Superintendents they deserve. They voted those people and unless they vote them out, they deserve whatever happens.
Fresh out of sympathy, folks.
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