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According to this narrative, Beutner, a wealthy businessman with no prior work experience in a school system, wants to increase the number of privately operated, nonunion charter schools and weaken the union’s influence. That agenda would damage the long-term interests of most students as well as district employees, union leaders say. The union views everything through this lens, including the superintendent’s still-confidential plan to reorganize the district.
Source: “Los Angeles” – Google News