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25 community teachers and community members from Tahoe-Truckee are heading down to Sacramento Friday night, the 20th of January, to hear Diane Ravitch.

An evening with DIANE RAVITCH

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 20126-7:30pm

SACRAMENTO CONVENTION CENTER
1400 J Street, Sacramento

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR $5
This event is sponsored by Sacramento and San
Joaquin Area Teacher Associations.
Tickets can be purchased by calling or visiting any of
your local associations.
Teachers can purchase tickets directly from your site
reps.

THE THIRD DISTRICT PTA OF CALIFORNIA
ENDORSES THIS EVENT

Interview with Diane on KQED

Influential education expert Diane Ravitch was once a champion of reform policies such as vouchers and charter schools. Now, she has emerged as a leading defender of public education. We talk to her about the state of schools in California and across the country.

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

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Occupy Movement Page – Click here to learn more 

“We have seen class sizes grow, college tuitions increase, and job opportunities vanish at the same time that banks have received bailouts and large corporations and millionaires have received tax cuts. We are the 99%. It’s time to put Main Street before Wall Street, and for corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.”

- CTA President Dean Vogel

TTEA has created a page about the Occupy Movement that began on Wall Street in New York City and has now moved across the country where people are protesting in order to share a message that it is not OK for this country to have the richest 1% of people and corporations not paying their fair share in taxes.  They, the 99%, are getting this message and others out by occupying city halls, banks, and even school district offices.  What is the message the protestors are sharing?  TTEA Co-Presidents Ed Hilton and Jon Halvorsen attended CTA State Council last weekend as elected delegates and had the opportunity to visit with some of the Occupy LA protestors and join in a march with fellow teachers from the Unified Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) on their school district office.  They heard from many people, including the President of the California Teachers Association who spoke to council about why CTA took a position in support of the Occupy movement.

Because of all this, many people, including teachers here in Tahoe-Truckee, have questions about what all this means.  So, to try to explain what the movement is all about TTEA put together this Occupy Movement Page  on our web site to share information and news.  Please comment at the bottom of the page with any questions or information you have about the movement here locally or abroad and we will do what we can to share it.

It is time to put Main Street before Wall Street!

Occupy Movement Page – Click here to learn more 

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Tax Fairness is needed along with budget cuts to balance our state budget while still protecting essential community services.  Tax is not a bad word!

 It’s Time to Fix the Problem with our Budget

CTA Plan of Action: A message from CTA President David Sanchez

There’s no debating that our schools, colleges and communities are suffering because of continued state budget cuts. California has the 8^th largest economy in the world, but continues to shortchange our students of the education they need and deserve. What’s worse, some Republican California lawmakers hijacked state budget negotiations in order to block a June ballot public vote to extend tax revenues, which were part of Governor Brown’s balanced budget plan. Enough is enough. We must take bold action designed to force legislators to do their job and pass the tax extension outright. That will take a 2/3rds vote of the legislature and a lot of pressure from us and other supporters.

State Council today approved a State of Emergency statewide week of action for May 9-13, 2011 (The plan is attached and below). This week is designed to put pressure on legislators to finish their work on the state budget and pass the temporary tax extensions outright. Please work with your members to begin immediately preparing for this week. More information will be coming as materials are developed and organizing is planned in your regions.

David A. Sanchez

CTA President

State of Emergency statewide week of action plan