Author: Larry Strauss

Parents of Ellis Lariviere, a 13-year-old who died by suicide, are suing his private school for not wanting him back. Their ordeal hits home with me.

Why would a school district want to keep teacher pay as low as possible? It’s not out of deep concern for taxpayers.

Politicians hopping on parental rights bandwagon exploit families’ real concerns to wage culture war against students and teachers.

United Teachers of Los Angeles is on our second strike in a little over four years. This time we are walking out in support of SEIU Local 99.

Too many see homelessness as threats to property values and tourism, and as potential crime, rather than as America’s economic and social failure.

The school at which I teach has become a school of choice, an alternative to inferior and sometimes perilous inner-city neighborhood high schools.

The school at which I teach has become a school of choice, an alternative to inferior and sometimes perilous inner-city neighborhood high schools.

You don’t have to read my books – you’ve made that unambiguously clear –or discuss them with someone who has read them. Just ban them.

Maybe the next generation of teachers can make headway in getting schools to reasonably pay us for our time and for the material needs of our classes.

At 22, I refused to wear the ‘I love my gay dad’ shirt my father tried to give me for a Pride Parade in Los Angeles. I wish I had kept it.