UTLA leadership campaign begins

Launching election season for the leadership of the Los Angeles teachers union, veteran educator Jordan Henry announced this week he plans to run for president of United Teachers Los Angeles. Connie Llanos in the Daily News,

Henry, a teacher with Los Angeles Unified since 1994, said he wanted to provide new leadership for the union, which he said has lost public support because of its tactics.

"I believe this union has been conflict driven for so long that now, faced with innumerable conflict, we've got few partners and little public collateral," Henry said Thursday during an education forum in Hollywood sponsored by the website and magazine Good Inc. and the University of Phoenix.