Volume 6 Issue 9, June 2002

Make no mistake about it

• June 2002

Features

• Vocational education: Is the plug being pulled?
• Practical skills prove beneficial
• Improving academic performance
• Certification programs: the wave of the future?

Taking a Stand

• South Orange County chapters request fair settlement of contracts
• Antelope Valley teachers rally on Day of the Teacher
• Math committee resigns after input is ignored

Making the Case

• California Master Plan for Education provides challenges for CTA members
• Revised budget proposal protects Prop. 98
• Heads up

Making a Difference

• TV show chronicles small miracles in Union City teacher's classroom
• Conference offers ESEA strategies
• CTA presents John Swett Awards for media coverage of education

Action

• CTA's agenda is worthy of members' pride, Johnson tells State Council delegates
• On the record
• Bass/Fadem winners honored
• Assembly guts CTA-sponsored testing measure
• Bill to give teachers a say in decisions dies on Assembly floor without a vote
• CTA, education groups urge quick passage of budget
• CTA battles efforts to raid retirement funds
• CTA-sponsored legislation for 2002
• Assembly okays proposal to increase counseling services
• NEA convention delegates will tackle issues, set policy
• Jointly managed trusts help chapters get a handle on rising health costs
• Practical strategies for priority schools

Portafolio!

• Celebrating differences
• Helping older English learners
• Going to school with disabilities
• Untapped assets
• Making sense of numbers
• Good grief
• Modeling for anatomy students