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CFT President's page |
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This page is the location for occasional items by CFT president Marty Hittelman. Hittelman was elected CFT president in 2007. He is the former president of the CFT Community College Council, and has taught math at Los Angeles Valley College for more than thirty years. Hittelman also serves as a vice president of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. In photo on left, Hittelman speaks at a Sacramento rally against state budget cuts in summer 2008. In photo on right, he visits with President Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis (center), along with Sandra Lepore of the Los Angeles AFT Staff Guild, Local 1521A.
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CFT President Hittelman on "Race to the Top" in San Francisco Chronicle |
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September 15—What are the ingredients of successful education reform? From the perspective of a classroom teacher, reform must be rooted in classroom practice and supported by research. [Click here for entire article.]
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CFT comments on "Race to the Top" |
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August 24, 2009
To: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
From: Marty Hittelman, President, California Federation of Teachers
Re: "Race to the Top"
Linking of Student Data
The Secretary of Education is proposing that a state must not have any legal, statutory, or regulatory barriers to linking data on student achievement or student growth to teachers and principals for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluation. California does have a law that provides a “firewall” between student scores and the evaluation of teachers at the state level but not at the local level. It prohibits, at the state level, the use of data to evaluate individual teachers. California also has collective bargaining at the local level and all decisions regarding teacher and principal evaluation are made at the local district level. Thus California has no restrictions on the use of such data at the local level, where it matters, for such evaluations. As a consequence, California should be judged to be in compliance with this requirement.
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Suspending Prop 98 would permanently rob billions from public school students |
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Read Marty's article in California Progress Report, July 15, 2009 |
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Taxes vs. Axes and the California State Budget |
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Read Marty's opinion editorial on budget priorities in the San Jose Mercury News, June 23, 2009. |
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