Beef up safety, teachers urge
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The teachers union Monday called on Los Angeles city and school officials to improve safety for students and teachers on and near campuses.
The call came after last month’s gang-related fatal shootings near schools in Glassell Park and Cypress Park. Last week, five middle-school students were wounded in an unrelated gang-linked shooting at a bus stop near a South Los Angeles campus.
The union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has made school safety an issue in current contract negotiations.
A school-district statement noted that, in the first incident, no students or teachers were harmed. It called schools among the safest places in a community.
-- Howard Blume
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