Reed v. United Teachers Los Angeles

*327Opinion

ASHMANN-GERST, J.

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) appeals a judgment entered upon a consent decree after the trial court conducted a fairness hearing and gave the consent decree final approval.1 The consent decree was reached between the Los Angeles Unified School District (District), the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (Partnership) and students (Students) from three of the District’s schools (Three Schools)2 to resolve claims that teacher layoffs had disproportionately and adversely impacted the Students’ constitutional and statutory rights to equal educational opportunities,…