It’s great to see our banner on the wall with our siblings at the Napa/Solano Central Labor Council breakfast and we are proud to stand together to support the following Canidates for November!
CD 3: John Garamendi
CD 5: Mike Thompson
SD 3: Bill Dodd
AD 4: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry
AD 11: Jim Frazier
AD 14: Mae Cendana Torlakson
Solano Supervisor District 2: Mike Ioakimedes
Napa Supervisor District 2: Mark Luce
Vallejo Mayor: Landis Graden
Council: Latressa Alford & Rozzana Verder-Aliga
Vacaville Council: Ron Rowlett
Suisun Council: Lori Wilson & Mike Segala
Fairfield Council: Rick Vaccarro & Rob Marin
Benicia Mayor: Mark Hughes
Council: Christina Strawbridge & Lionel Largaespada
Dixon Mayor: Jack Batchelor
Council: Steve Bird & Jerry Castanon
Fairfield-Suisun USD

• area 1: Spencer Marks
• area 2: Joan Gaut
• area 3: Judi Honeychurch
• area 6: Ana Petero

Benicia USD Full Term: Gary Wing & Stacy Holguin
Short Term: Celeste Monnette
Travis USD: No recommendation
Solano Community College area 3: Rosemary Thurston
Vacaville USD: No recommendation for full term or short term seats
Vallejo USD Full Term: John Fox & Melissa Badong Bowman
Short Term: No recommendation
Napa Board of Education area 3: Lisa Lindsey
Napa Valley College

• area 1: Dan Digardi
• area 6: Debbie Alter-Starr

Napa Valley USD

• area 4: Joe Schunk
• area 7: Jose Hurtado

Napa Mayor: Jill Techel
Council: Scott Sedgely & Mary Luros

We also endorsed the following candidates and measures:

Solano Community College area 5: – Chris Fickes

California Proposition 55

California Proposition 58

California Proposition 52

Solano County Measure A

Solano County Measure B

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NOTE – this would not affect our charter schools Buckingham, Fairmont, ACE and Ernest Kimme!

A coalition of education, civil rights, and community organizations are working to ensure all charter schools are held to the same standards of accountability and transparency as regular public schools and that they admit all children.

 Join this effort by asking Governor Brown to sign AB 709. 

AB 709 requires all charter schools to be transparent and accountable to parents and to disclose how they spend taxpayer money, including budgets and contracts. It prohibits charter school board members and their families from profiting from their schools, and requires charter schools to comply with California’s open meetings, open records and conflict of interest laws.    

Click here to send a letter to Governor asking him to sign  AB 709 into law!

The coalition also supported SB 322, which would end the discriminatory admission practices in place at many charter schools. The bill would end the common practice of charters cherry-picking the students they want and turning away students that need extra help, such as special education students, English learners or students with low academic performance. It also ensures uniform disciplinary actions for all students, by requiring charter schools to identify a list of acts for which students can be suspended or expelled, as well as setting a maximum length for suspensions. SB 322 died on the Assembly floor in the closing days of the legislative session.

You can also support Kids Not Profits by signing the petition to the right, calling for higher standards and accountability for charters.

Exec Board Agenda Sept. 6, 2016

In line with our policy and sponsored legislation, CTA is launching the Kids Not Profits campaign tomorrow (Wednesday). This advocacy and public awareness campaign is calling for more accountability and transparency of California charter schools and exposing the coordinated agenda by a group of billionaires to divert money from California’s neighborhood public schools to privately-managed charter schools. These same billionaires are spending record amounts of money to influence local legislative and school board elections across the state.

CTA proudly represents more than 5,000 charter school educators and is working with many others who want to join with us in standing up for students and accountability. When the charter law was passed in California in 1992, no one ever intended it to be a playground for billionaires who want to profit off students and push their agenda on the rest of us.

Together with parents, fellow educators, and civil rights and community groups, we have been talking about the need for accountability and transparency at privately-managed charter schools for some time now. We’ve sponsored many bills over the last few years. AB 709 was approved and sent to the governor last week. SB 322 was being debated today, but did not have the votes to pass.

The Kids Not Profits campaign includes:

• A series of radio ads in English and Spanish.
• An informative website – www.KidsNotProfits.com – where you, your members, parents and the public can get more information about privately-managed charter schools and the agenda of their anti-public education billionaire supporters. The website will go live at midnight.  
• Resources and materials for you to use to inform your members, including:
  • Talking points
  • Q & A
  • Fact sheets – Meet the Billionaires, Follow the Charter Campaign Money, Recent Concerns with Charter Schools, Charter Schools 101-California
  • Flyer about the campaign
• A social media campaign that includes graphics and sample posts using the hash tag #KidsNotProfits
• A media teleconference (Thursday, Sept. 1) with coalition partners and parents to call on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign AB 709.

Thank you for working every day to provide our students with the public education they need and deserve. Public education must always be about students, NOT profits for billionaires.