Council to consider voluntary contribution
Volume 12, Issue 7 - April 2008
State Council took a first look at a proposal that would allow members to contribute $20 a year toward the CTA Foundation and CTA’s advocacy efforts on behalf of public education.
If approved by Council, the voluntary contribution would be flexible. CTA members would be able to opt out of the entire $20 contribution; choose to opt out of a portion of the $20 contribution; or choose to allocate the entire $20 contribution to support either advocacy efforts or the CTA Foundation, where funds would be applied to scholarships, disaster relief and the Institute for Teaching. The proposal will be voted on by Council at the June meeting.
In other action, State Council:
- Elected the following officers by acclamation: CTA Board, District J-LA — Mary Rose Ortega; CTA Board, District K — Don Bridge; CTA Board, At-Large — Marty Meeden; newly elected Board member for District N, Michael Stone, taught for 16 years (the last 13 in Capistrano USD) and also taught in Riverside, Irvine, and Palm Springs, and is a State Council representative; CTA/ABC Committee, District G — Pam Kinsley; CTA/ABC Committee, District H — Karen Schuett; CTA/ABC Committee, District I — Leslie Littman; CTA/ABC Committee, District J — Hattie B. McFrazier; CTA/ABC Committee, District M — Heidi Chipman; CTA/ABC Committee, District O — Roslyn Jones; NEA Director, District 12 — George Sheridan; NEA Alternate Director — Alexandra Condon.
- Approved a recommendation that CTA encourage local affiliates to participate in informational picketing along major thoroughfares on May 14, California Day of the Teacher, to alert the public to the devastating impact the governor’s budget proposals will have on public schools.
- Presented the ESP Member of the Year award to Ida Stanford, a paraprofessional member of United Educators of San Francisco, for her 33-year career working primarily with underserved youth.
- Greeted four of the California Teachers of the Year: Lewis Chappelear, Tamara Reina, Andee Aceves and Michael Allen Long.
- Approved a recommendation to inform members of their rights under Section 852 of STAR, which gives teachers the right to inform parents of their right to opt students out of testing as long as teachers do not advocate that parents do so.