The Los Angeles teachers union and L.A. County Federation of Labor have stopped supporting school board candidate Kahllid Al-Alim after he promoted an antisemitic book online.

Since the October 2023 Israel-Hamas war, Jewish families in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) are concerned about the safety of their children due to anti-Israel and anti-Zionist statements from the Oakland Educators Association (OEA) teachers union.

The author discusses the role of the teachers union in the decline of public education, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.