CTA’s candidate recommendation process involves interview teams of local educators who interview candidates and evaluate them on a variety of criteria, including:

• Their positions on and vision for K-12, community college and higher education issues.
• Their historical support for public education, students, and educators, in such areas as education funding, budget stability, safe schools and campuses for all students, collective bargaining, educator professional rights, charter school accountability, and equal access to higher education.
• Their viability for success in the office that they are seeking.

Interview teams then forward their recommendations to the CTA Board for review and discussion before being brought to CTA State Council (CTA’s top policy-making body, with 800 delegates), which debates and approves/disapproves final recommendations.

If you have any questions regarding CTA’s candidate recommendation process, please contact: ctagovernmentalrelations@cta.org.