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Posted June 20, 2011 in California Educator

UPDATE

As the Educator went to press, CTA members and representatives were hard at work trying to secure the four votes needed to pass a state budget with the extensions of current...

Posted April 23, 2012 in California Educator

Lawmakers use Miramonte as excuse to take away teachers' rights

In the wake of the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse allegations, a trio of bills has been introduced that would take away rights from all California teachers. Under the guise of increased student...

Posted February 15, 2013 in Site Pages

New Lawmakers Becoming Familiar with Legislative Deadlines

Legislative Deadlines are becoming familiar to new Lawmakers.

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Posted May 21, 2012 in California Educator

CTA presses lawmakers to approve tax extensions

When legislators missed a deadline for putting a tax extension measure before the voters in June, CTA quickly switched to Plan B. CTA has begun pressing lawmakers to approve the temporary tax extension...

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Posted March 22, 2013 in Site Pages

Common Message Delivered to Lawmakers on Implementation of Standards - Time and Money Needed to Implement Common Core State Standards Successfully

Informal hearing on understanding the Common Core and the Smarter Balance New Generation of Assessments help on March 13.

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Posted March 28, 2013 in Site Pages

Legislature Set to Work to Meet Measure Deadlines When Lawmakers Return on April 1

A large number of bills will being considered in policy committees as early as April 3.

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Posted April 28, 2013 in Site Pages

Higher Education Coalition Comes to Capitol to Urge Lawmakers to Defeat Online Education Bill

Bill would divert education dollars to private contractors to provide online courses, instead of allowing college faculty to offer the coursework.

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Posted November 02, 2009 in California Educator

Lawmaker to introduce new universal health care bill

A newly elected state senator is pledging to introduce a new version of a comprehensive health care reform bill this legislative year aimed at providing all Californians with affordable coverage.

Posted May 14, 2012 in California Educator

One bad dismissal bill defeated; two others are amended and moved, but still bad

Two CTA-opposed bills would quash teachers' constitutional rights, while doing nothing to address the Los Angeles Unified School District management's failure to protect children.

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Posted May 21, 2012 in California Educator

State of Emergency

"We haven’t had a GATE [Gifted and Talented Education] program since 2008. Class sizes in K-3 have increased to 25 students per class and will be going up to 30 next year....

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