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 harm 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 Times December 19, 2018 18:22 UTC