California Educators Share Stories of Returning To In-Person Instruction, Helping with Vaccinations, and Facing the Unique Pressures Forcing Some Female Educators Out of the Profession

Advertising Campaign Reinforces Need for Vaccines and Multilayered Protective Measures Echoing the CDC Guidelines

The anticipated CDC Guidelines to reopen public schools safely was released Friday, reiterating what California’s educators have been calling for over the last 10 months

A coalition of education labor groups today presented a pathway for reopening schools to lawmakers. Classroom Learning and Safe Schools for Employees and Students (CLASSES) proposes a multi-layered pathway to bringing students back to schools in an equitable way that keeps both students and staff safe.

Eager to return to in-person teaching and learning, California’s teachers, nurses, counselors, and education support professionals sent a letter to Governor Newsom calling for an aggressive statewide plan to limit the transmission of the COVID-19 virus over the next 100 days.

CTA President E. Toby Boyd, a kindergarten teacher, was elected to another two-year term as president of the 310,000-member CTA during the quarterly meeting of the State Council of Education held virtually today.