EC / K-12 NEWS

• EC/K-12 Council meeting at CFT convention: reports
• Early Childhood Organizing Project in Pre-K Advocacy Day
• Organizing victory for N. CA early childhood educators
• "No Child Left Behind" reauthorization info
• CFT participates in Ed Source "Convening" October 19
• "No public education by corporation," by George Martinez
• New research supports investing in effective pre-K
• "No Time to Quit," by Miles Myers
• CFT Position Paper on Charter Schools (pdf)
• What CFT members can do about the state budget crisis

Throughout the state, CFT members are responding to the governor's unfortunate plan to solve the state's $17 billion budget deficit with cuts, borrowing, and a regressive sales tax. Educators are also rallying against the irresponsible refusal by legislative Republicans to consider any tax increase at all. In a state where education funding is 46th in the country, more cuts are not acceptable. We must instead increase state revenues, that is, increase taxes, by asking the people who can best afford to do so to help. Assembly Democrats have such a progressive tax in their budget proposal. Republican governor Pete Wilson accepted this necessity in a similar fiscal crisis fifteen years ago. On this page you will find information about what CFT is doing to organize locally, in coalition with other groups, and through legislative advocacy to put public education on a more solid footing.