My research shows that the UTLA does indeed specifically require defunding of police. Their paper titled
The Same Storm, but Different Boats:
The Safe and Equitable Conditions for
Starting LAUSD in 2020-21
UTLA July 2020
Available at
https://www.utla.net/sites/default/f...oats_final.pdf
covers that issue on page 11, items 1 and 4. So they do indeed state these are issues related to reopening the schools and that they must be addressed before the schools can open. Having been personally involved with an LA Times "investigation" many years ago and seeing up close how they manipulated the truth, the fact that they chose not to cover this story does not surprise me at all and does not, IMHO, make it any less true. The paper they posted does not put the union in the best light, or at least the Times may well feel that it does not, so they elected to skip it.