Every district in the L.A. Basin pays higher salaries than the L.A. Unified School District. I think we're 41st out of 43 districts in terms of teacher salaries. Three years ago we were first. Our principals, our school secretaries and other staff positions rank first, second or third in their categories in terms of salary of the 43 county districts. Los Angeles has one of the highest-paid superintendents.
Teachers are at the bottom.
The last class I taught had 39 kids. In a crisis like this, schools are the one place that bring a community together. They're in the schools, in the gymnasiums. They're the center of the community. The public school building means a lot emotionally to people in the United States, and it's getting lost.