“We are an education family,” Tiffany Kaplan said. “We want to fight for everyone so they can have fair pay,” the first-grader said. Liev Kaplan, 6, marched with his mom, Tiffany, an adaptive physical education teacher. “We remain ready to return to negotiations with SEIU Local 99 so we can provide an equitable contract to our hardworking employees and get our students back in classrooms,” the superintendent said in a statement Tuesday. Carvalho accused the union of refusing to negotiate and said that he was prepared to meet at any time day or night. “These are the co-workers that are the lowest-paid workers in our schools and we cannot stand idly by as we consistently see them disrespected and mistreated by this district,” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz told a news conference. Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 educators, counselors and other staff, earlier pledged solidarity with the strikers. “We really need to be out here having our voices heard,” she said. Lydia Vasquez searched for her husband in the crowd as demonstrators chanted “we are the future.” He works as a school custodian and she couldn’t remember the last time he got a raise. “I’m going to be here, rain or shine,” he said. rally at a bus yard before joining a demonstration at a school and then heading downtown. Bus driver Mike Cervantes began his day of protest with a 4 a.m.
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