Teachers Unions Continue to Exploit COVID to Serve Themselves

Those who believe there’s hope for reforming the current union-controlled public school system ought to pay close attention to the response by United Teachers Los Angeles to a seemingly unobjectionable recent teaching proposal. The district is offering “Accelerated Days” in October to help students who have lagged far behind in their studies because of the COVID-19 shutdowns.

The Los Angeles Unified School District wants to offer several additional teaching days for “students identified as in need of intensive intervention … to accelerate students’ progress toward grade-level proficiency, social emotional learning and high school graduation,...