Education Coalition
Current Legislation
Monitoring the legislative process and advocating for laws that achieve gains for students, teachers and public education are among the cornerstones of CTA's mission.
Furlough Days
While local school districts are exercising "flexibility" in finding remedies to the budget crisis, CTA does not consider the taking of furlough days without pay a constructive solution to the California budget situation, whether demanded by the governor or by local school districts.
Issues & Action
Budget Crisis
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Assembly Speaker John A. Perez and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg on August 3 presented a joint plan to protect public schools, colleges and students from further budget cuts and to provide new revenue to help in the effort to combat $17 billion in cuts to education. The plan includes new revenues, but it also suspends Proposition 98, the state’s minimum school funding law, which is not good for students.
The $17 billion that has been cut from California public schools and colleges in the last two years, equals a cut of nearly $3,000 per student. This is the single largest cut to public education since the Great Depression. Over 26,000 educators were issued preliminary pink slips this year alone. For perspective, check these school spending charts and see how public schools have fared over the last 13 budgets.
Latest News
08.25.10 Oakland, LAUSD to get SIG money after all | The Educated Guess
08.24.10 School funding delay could force East Bay districts into short-term borrowing | Oakland Tribune
07.28.10 No end in sight for Sacramento budget stalemate | Los Angeles Times
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An Education Coalition Report
Education Coalition leaders have released a report on the impact of the $17 billion in statewide cuts to California's public schools.
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Are you personally feeling the pinch of the economic crisis in your classroom? Have you noticed significant changes in your students' behavior as a result? We want to hear from you—he classroom teacher, the librarian, the bus driver—ow are these devastating cuts affecting your work?
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