Charter school teachers join picketers in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked picket lines again Tuesday as administrators urged them to return to classrooms and for their union to return to the bargaining table.

"It is by no means a normal day in LA Unified," Superintendent Austin Beutner acknowledged as the strike by thousands of members of United Teachers Los Angeles entered its second day.

"To state the obvious, we need our educators back in our classrooms helping inspire our students," he said. "The painful truth is we just don't have enough money to do everything UTLA is asking Los Angeles Unified to do.