Aug 31
CTA Launches ‘Kids Not Profits’ Campaign Calling for Charter School Accountability and Exposing Billionaires’ Agenda
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.
Aug 27
Here is your Executive Board for the 2015-2017
President – Moira McSweeney
Vice-president – Alyson Brauning
Treasurer – Brenda Hensley
Recording Secretary – Corey Penrose
Corresponding Secretary – Samantha Dubs
VHS/CHS/ESC director – Sylvia Aquino
WCW/BCS/Ernest Kimme ISP director – Todd Blanset
Vaca Pena director – Jenny Brown
Jepson director – Tracey Begley
Alamo and Markham- Sofia Calderon
Orchard and Browns Valley- Megan Morris
Padan and Hemlock- Mike Ensley
Fairmont, Callison and Larsen – Tammy Parker
Cooper and Sierra Vista- Sharon Riehl
Aug 27
Your Representative Council for 2016-2017
Padan Elementary School
Anemarie Woehler
Navjot Kaur
Hemlock Elementary School and ACE Charter School
Yvonne DiMichele
Cooper Elementary School
Russ Tucker
Julie McGee
Callison Elementary School
Allen May
Leslie Losberger
Browns Valley Elementary School
Mark Richardson
Sierra Vista Elementary School
Fairmont Elementary Charter School
Carolyn Thomas
Cyndi Marshall
Markham Elementary School
Jose Bermudez
Helen Blood
Alternate – Sylvia Shepard
Orchard Elementary School
Janel Curtis
Jepson Middle School
Becky Wylie
Lisa Cusi/Marcus York
Vaca Pena Middle School
Rebecca Pinto
Glenn Branaman
Country High School
Andrew Bower
Buckingham Charter School
Jouli Jara
Vacaville High School
Chris Fickes
Greg Ghmahling
Cindy Bray
Erin Gordon
Lindsay Richardson
Alternate – Nina Foster
Will C Wood High School
Miranda Merino
Chris Wagner
Nancy Louie Anderson
Liz Meagor