Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles officials are expected to come together today at LAUSD headquarters to discuss details that could avert a strike from occurring this Thursday.

"We're going in today with an open mind," UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl said during an interview on The Beat on One Monday morning. "We would like to see what can be done here. We need to see from the district a commitment to district schools and district students that we haven't seen yet."

Caputo-Pearl added that the district's current offer of $30 million for class size reduction and additional staff "doesn't pass the giggle test."

"That's only one extra staff member for one-third of the schools across the city, so we want to see a real commitment to our students and schools," he said.

If no compromise is reached, over 33,000 teachers and staff from LAUSD could walk off the job on Thursday. In order to reach an agreement,  the union is asking for a 6.5 percent pay raise, which the district has countered by offering 6 percent. The union also wants overcrowding in classrooms addressed as well as lack of counselors and nurses, and inadequate technology.

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Superintendent Austin Beutner, who visited The Beat on 1 on Friday, said that even though the district currently has a $2 billion surplus, that boon could soon disappear.

"We're spending about half a billion dollars more than we take in," Beutner said. "You're running out of money, you're spending the reserve, and when it runs out you'll be in big trouble."

Caputo-Pearl said that the fact that 25 percent of the record-breaking surplus is in a reserve is "ridiculous." 

"Students need that now," Caputo-Pearl said. "... We're not gonna accept the reserve being treated as something we shouldn't thinking about in the immediate moment, in the immediate crisis. This isn't a situation where there's not money to make sure kids have nurses, counselors, low class sizes, this is about political choices and we have to make those choices."