Larry Sand started his teaching career in New York in 1971. Beginning in 1985, he taught elementary school as well as English, math, history, and ESL in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he also served as a Title 1 Coordinator. Retired in 2009, he is the president of the non-profit, non-partisan California Teachers Empowerment Network. CTEN was formed in 2006 because a wide range of information, from the more global concerns of education policy, education leadership, and education reform to information having a more personal application, such as professional liability insurance, options of relationships to teachers unions, and the effect of unionism on teacher pay, comes to teachers from entities that have a specific agenda. Sand’s comments and op-eds have appeared in the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, National Review, Real Clear Politics, Newsweek, Townhall Magazine, Frontpage Mag, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, The Christian Science Monitor, The Epoch Times, American Greatness, and other publications. In May 2011 became a regular contributor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s policy publication. In April 2018, he received an award from the National Right to Work Foundation for “excellence in reporting the right-to-work principle in the media.” Sand has appeared on numerous broadcast news programs and talk radio shows in Southern California and nationally.