At a Sacramento press conference on January 10, CFT EC/K-12 president Sue Westbrook (at mike) and CFT president Marty Hittelman blast the governor's proposed budget, which would devastate California's public schools. Westbrook told reporters that the impact of the governor's budget would be to destroy the possibility of quality education for California's six and half million K-12 students. Kara Buchanan photo.

The CFT Early Childhood/K-12 Council is the policy-making body for the Early Childhood and K-12 segment of the California Federation of Teachers, comprised of the presidents of all the Federation's Early Childhood and K-12 locals.