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Category: California

  • #13 Is % GDP What We Want?

    When we argue for increased spending on public education we often say that “the fifth largest economy in the world” can easily afford to adequately fund schools. So we’re talking…

  • #12 % GDP spent on education, by state

    “the fifth largest economy in the world” What percentage of the whole state economy is spent on education? We’ll have some comments on this graph, and another one comparing countries,…

  • #11 Opinions on Community Schools: Push for National Health Care

    What worries me are the mental health services and other health services the community schools will supposedly offer. We know that health care is lacking for working people in this…

  • #11 Questions about Community Schools (Article 52) in the new UTR contract

    How will the district level Community Schools Support Collaborative be chosen? What will be the composition of the Systems Change Collaborative? How will each Community School choose an Action Collaborative,…

  • #10 CFT Convention Report

    “At least we’re not the CTA!”  “At least we’re not Florida!” In hopes that CFT is becoming more of a fighting union, I attended the first two days of the…

  • #10 Why Wildcat?

    A wildcat strike is any strike not sanctioned by the local or national union. Sometimes they are about local issues— fired reps, forced overtime or unpaid wages (SFUSD!) but others…

  • #9 School Funding: Feast or Famine?

    If you listen to our Governor, California is making record-breaking investments in schools.  If you listen to our school districts, California is about to fall off a fiscal cliff next…

  • #8 UC Graduate Students Strike

    In the biggest national strike of the year, 48,000 Academic Workers are on week four of their strike across the ten campus University of California system. The bargaining units include academic…

  • #7 48,000 U.C. Graduate Students On Strike

    On November 14, everyday life at the ten campuses of the University of California will come to a halt as up to 48,000 workers – postdocs, graduate student researchers, teaching…

  • #6 Class Size: California’s Shame

    California is the wealthiest state in the richest country in the world. So why is California among the states with the most crowded classes? How bad is it? In the…

  • #6 15%— We need it. They have it.

    Billionaires living in California made enormous profits in 2021. (Duh!) But at least they had to pay a small percentage of those profits as taxes, and because of Prop 98…

  • #5 Whither CACS?

    Five years ago, when I first heard about C.A.C.S, California Alliance for Community Schools, I was very excited. The brainchild of three California Teachers Association (C.T.A) union presidents, it was…

  • #3 FCMAT— The State Enforcers

    “FCMAT Requests Applications of Interest for County Trustee at Oakland Unified School District”.  https://www.fcmat.org/oakland The state and county offices of education are trying to put the Oakland Unified School District…