Volume Thirteen, Issue 9 - June 2009

Volume 13, Issue 9
June 2009

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• June 2009

Features

• Whats New At CTA.org
• CTA Calendar
• Update - Judge Upholds Ceres Unified Teachers Association Grading Victory
• In the age of testing, can schools teach critical thinking?
• Providing calm when parents go off to war

Making A Difference

• Program helps at-risk students focus on positives
• Bay Area rallies against Social Security offset law
• Members celebrate Day of the Teacher, protest cuts
• QEIA school makes strides, boosts test scores
• LACEA decries cutting counselors for at-risk youth programs

Taking A Stand

• $1.4 million settlement for misclassified members
• Sweetwater teachers: no confidence in superintendent

Action

• Sanchez tells Council CTA will keep fighting
• CTA, coalition battle governor over latest cuts
• What you should do to prepare for second-round RIFs this summer
• Sixteen winners of John Swett Awards
• Trend toward teacher retirement on the rise
• Calexico teachers win hard-fought contract
• CTA-sponsored and co-sponsored legislation for 2009-10
• Member profile: Leslie Hong

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