Larry Sand started his teaching career in New York in 1971. Beginning in 1985, he taught elementary and middle school in Los Angeles. Retired in 2009, he is president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network – an organization dedicated to providing teachers with reliable and balanced information about their profession – information teachers don’t often get from their school districts or unions.
Sand’s comments and op-eds have appeared in National Review Online, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, Forbes and other publications. He has blogged at Union Watch since 2010 and in 2011 became a regular contributor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s policy publication. Beginning in 2011, he appeared on panels across the country in support of National School Choice Week. Sand has appeared on numerous news programs and talk radio shows in California and nationally. In 2014, he became a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute.
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