Los Angeles teachers strike 2nd day

Los Angeles Unified School District officials are urging teachers to return to the bargaining table as the strike by educators continues on its second day.

Superintendent Austin Beutner told reporters that the district doesn’t have the money to do everything the teachers union wants, and he urged them to join him in pushing for more state funding.

Beutner says about 144,000 of the district's 640,000 students attended schools yesterday, the first day of the strike. The district hired substitutes to replace the union teachers in schools.

Because funding is dependent on attendance, the student absences cost the district about $25 million. At the same time, the district didn’t have to spend about $10 million on teacher pay.