Capitol News: Assembly Education Hears Measure Protecting Class Size...
Sets Vote for May 1 On Wednesday, April 24th, he Assembly Education Committee heard testimony about a CTA-supported bill designed to help protect the state’s vital Class Size Reduction Program. Desa...
View ArticleCapitol News: Higher Education Coalition Comes to Capitol to Urge Lawmakers...
Panel Holds SB 520 for Vote Next Week During meetings with lawmakers in the Capitol on Tuesday, April 23, educators – including CTA Board Member Theresa Montaño – urged lawmakers to vote against...
View ArticleSenate Education Defeats Two Opposed Measures; Third Moves Over Educators’...
At the urging of educators, the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday again defeated two measures that would have respectively undermined effective teacher evaluations and undercut educators’ right...
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Legislative Analyst: New Revenues Expected to Boost K-14 Funding by More Than...
(Chart above – Proposition 30 and the improving economy lead the LAO to conclude schools will see an estimated $4.3 billion in new funds by 2013-2014.) The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has...
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Ramona Teachers Overwhelmingly Approve Strike Authorization Vote
By a more than three-fourths majority – with 99 percent voting – members of the Ramona Teachers Association overwhelming approved a vote authorizing the RTA’s executive board to call for a strike...
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Legislature Honors CTA for 150 Years of Strong Advocacy for Education
(Photo above) Dana Dillon, an elementary educator from Weed, Alen Ritchie, a retired teacher, and Rick Simpson, deputy chief of staff to Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles), display the...
View ArticleCapitol News: CTA Fights Tax Credits and Exemptions That Could Cost Schools...
California’s governor, educators, and other union members worked long and hard to secure voters’ approval of Proposition 30 in November to bring desperately needed new revenues to schools and other...
View ArticleCapitol News: Measure to Protect Class Size Reduction Program Moves to...
The Assembly Education Committee passed a bill that would enforce the state’s Class Size Reduction program for grades K-3. Because of the state’s budget crisis, penalties for districts failing to...
View ArticleCTA Commends Governor for May Budget Revision, Providing Funding For Common...
We commend Governor Jerry Brown today for keeping public education a priority in his May revision of the state budget. Allocating $1 billion to help local school districts implement the Common Core...
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More Than 200 Educators Urge Lawmakers to Support Public Education
Classroom Experts Support Targeted Funding, Class Size Reduction, and More (Photo top) Para Educator Doreen McGuire-Griggs talks to reporters during a May 22 news conference during the Presidents Lobby...
View ArticleCapitol News: California Educators Meet With Lawmakers to Discuss School...
Presidents’ Lobby Day a Success More than 200 educators and CTA members met with their local lawmakers at the state Capitol Wednesday to discuss many issues related to the state budget — Gov. Jerry...
View ArticleCapitol News: Senate Health Committee Approves CTA-supported Insurance Rate...
The Senate Health Committee on a 7-2 vote approved CTA-supported SB 746 by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) to implement a state review of health insurance rates in the large employer market. SB 746...
View ArticleCapitol News: CTA/CCA and Allies Defeat Effort to Move Funds from Classrooms...
The Assembly Appropriations Committee rejected AB 806. The CTA-opposed bill by Assembly Member Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) would have undermined the current law requiring community college districts...
View ArticleConferees Send Legislators Budget Compromise: All Schools Would Get More Funds
Proposal Would Allocate $1.25 Billion to Implement Common Core A newly approved budget proposal would give all districts in California the most funding since 2007-08, the last year before $20 billion...
View ArticleCalifornia Educators Support Agreement On New School Funding Formula
We are extremely encouraged by the historic state budget agreement in Sacramento to overhaul education funding for K-12 schools. Thanks to the hard work of educators and parents to pass Proposition 30,...
View ArticleLegislature Approves State Budget: California Educators Are Encouraged by the...
The state Senate and Assembly today passed AB 110, the legislature’s budget bill that will make a historic change in how schools are funded. The new budget, which is on its way to the governor for his...
View ArticleCapitol News: Legislature Sends Budget, Trailer Bills to Governor
AB 86, Education Trailer Bill, Details Actions Affecting Schools If Governor Jerry Brown signs the state budget bill by June 30th without making any changes, public education will see $55.3 billion in...
View ArticleCapitol News: Governor Brown Signs Budget
Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed California’s new, $96.3 billion budget that overhauls public school funding to help at-risk students succeed, and includes $1.25 billion in school district funding...
View ArticleCapitol News: Broad-based Coalition Comes Together to Lobby Against Higher Ed...
More than 30 CTA members from community colleges, CSU, UC and students came together to urge lawmakers to vote against CTA-opposed SB 520. This bill, a measure by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell...
View ArticleGovernor Brown Tapped as “America’s Greatest Education Governor”
California Teachers Accept Award on Governor’s Behalf; He Addresses 9,000 Educators via Video (Photo above) Governor of California Jerry Brown speaks via a live video feed during the presentation of...
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