A massive three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools’ lowest paid employees — bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and others — kicked off early Tuesday, with picketers marching through the dark, rainy morning.

Those striking school employees, joined in solidarity by the teachers union, shuttered the nation’s second-largest school system after last-minute efforts to avert the strike failed, disrupting learning, vital meal services and the daily lives of 420,000 children and their families. Click here to read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-21/lausd-bus-drivers-teachers-strike?utm_id=90652&sfmc_id=2420175