LAUSD teachers’ strike, Day 5: The sun’s out, L.A. strikers gather, and hopes rise for a settlement

If striking Los Angeles teachers needed an omen as they rallied in Grand Park downtown Friday, Mother Nature obliged. After four days of picketing in rain and chill and gloom, the sun burst forth.

“Do you feel your power?” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl asked the masses, who stretched from the…