LAUSD Teachers’ Strike: Day 1

Participants in the first day of the LAUSD teachers’ strike march in Downtown Los Angeles. (All photos courtesy of Bainbridge Scott.)

Their first stop, after converging at Grand Park, is 333 S. Beaudry Ave.— the LAUSD’s administrative office building.

Los Angeles Police Department officers block the entrance to the Beaudry Avenue headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Police also cordoned off several streets in downtown for Monday’s march.

Kindergarten teacher Rita Wong, left, and Liliette Peña, who teaches second- and third-graders with learning disabilities, stop for a photo op.

Parent Soraya, who requested that she be referred to by her first name only, burns incense while teachers danced and chanted in front of the LAUSD’s downtown L.A. headquarters at 3rd Street and Beaudry Avenue.

Sylvia Muñoz, a fifth-grade substitute teacher at Gates Street Elementary School, protests as fellow strikers approach, one with a sign that read “Luchamos” (“we fight”).

Aiden Aguilar, whose mother gave her approval for this photo, got grownups’ attention with his sign.

This sign makes apparent the protesters’ collective opinion of those teachers who crossed the picket line to work.

A student from Gates Street Elementary School in Los Angeles shows up with her father at a strike site across from Lincoln High School in L.A.’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood.

Teacher Sam Sack comes prepared to the first day of the LAUSD strike.

A discarded sign calls for smaller class sizes in LAUSD schools.