In this case, past results are very much a guarantee of future performance

Not content with a decades-long failure to teach their students how to read, write and perform simple math, LA’s teachers demand 20% pay hike (average pay is already $123,000, so $147,600) and more; much more.

California teachers making six figures would see pay hike under Green New Deal

The United Teachers of Los Angeles is planning to strike for three days next week in an effort to transform city schools into a "green" social services hub. The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has identified the teachers' plan as part of its "Green New Deal for L.A. Public Schools" and said it is the group's priority agenda item for the year. But buried beneath the teachers' sundry progressive demands is a 20 percent salary hike over two years for Los Angeles teachers, who on average make $123,000 per year.

The socialist-backed strike is the latest example of teachers' unions harnessing allegedly high-minded progressive causes to wrest professional wins. As students languished under union-backed school closures during the pandemic, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten pushed to ditch standardized testing in the name of equity. Last summer, the president of the National Education Association said the union would lobby on transgender issues, abortion, and gun control alongside its fight against charter schools. The California teachers' union is lobbying on gun control, flavored tobacco bans, and LGBT issues to shore up support from other powerful political groups.

The teachers' union lifted elements of the DSA's Green New Deal for schools, such as demands for free public transportation for students, "climate literacy" courses taught through a "racial justice lens," campus parks, and more school solar panels. The teachers' platform, titled "Beyond Recovery," also seeks city rent controls, taxpayer-funded parental leave, subsidized housing on unused school property, smaller classrooms, and a crackdown on charter schools. The union is also demanding that administrators lobby the federal government to make COVID-19 funds permanent and the state to increase cash flow.

Los Angeles public school teachers earn an average per year of $123,000, excluding benefits, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of district salaries posted to Transparent California. That is nearly twice the city's average salary of $67,500.