As election 2016 continues, we’d like to remind you that your fellow educators, up and down the state of California, have met and will continue to meet with every candidate, regardless of party affliation, seeking an endorsement from our union.

The Vacaville Teachers Association is also a proud affiliate of the Napa-Solano Central Labor Council and, for this June primary, we held multiple interviews over a one-week period.  Our panel consisted of Postal Workers, Machinists, Clerical Workers, Hotel Workers, College Faculty, Carpenters, Insulators, Teachers, School Employees, Food Workers, Iron Workers, Electricians, Teamsters, Plumbers and Steamfitters, Sheet Metal Workers, Cement Masons, Operating Engineers, Bricklayers, and our Service employees; asking the candidates tough questions on issues facing their members.

As a result of these two enforcement interviews, the Vacaville Teachers Association Representative Council met on May 17th and voted to stand with our brothers and sisters in labor by endorsing the following state of issues and candidates for the June Election.

US Congress:
CD # 5: Mike Thompson
CD #3: John Garamendi

CA Senate District
SD #3: Bill Dodd

CA Assembly District
AD # 4: Dual Endorsement for Dan Wolk and Don Saylor
AD # 11: Jim Frazier
AD #14: Mae Torlekson

Solano County Board of Supervisors:
District #1: Erin Hannigan
District #2: Dual Endorsement for Denis Honeychurch and Mike Ioakimedes
District #5: Skip Thomson

Napa County Board of Supervisors:
District #2: Mark Luce
District #4: Alfredo Pedroza
District #5 Belia Ramos

Solano County Democratic Central Committee:

o  District 1 (Erin Hannagan’s District)
§ Burky Worel
§ Robert Padilla
§ Nona Cohen-Bowman
§ Jon Riley
§ Lynette P. Henley

o  District 5 (Skip Thomson’s District)
§ Joe Summers
§ Jeanette Wylie
§ Paul Stichick

Ballot Measures we are supporting

Solano
Yes on Measure AA: SF bay area clean water, pollution prevention, and habitat restoration program.
Yes on Measure G: Solano county transportation improvement advisory measure.
Yes on Measure H: Solano county 2016 transactions and use tax.
Yes on Measure J: Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Bond proposal

Napa
Yes on Measure H: Napa Valley Unified School District Bond
Yes on Measure Y: Napa county sales tax for new correctional facilities and children’s programs.

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Seven graduating seniors will receive money to help start teaching careers

Vacaville – As the state of California grapples with unprecedented shortages in the teacher preparation pipeline, the Vacaville Teachers Association will continue to do it’s part to encourage the class of 2016 to become teachers by awarding $12,000 dollars in six different scholarships to graduating seniors from Vacaville High School, Will C Wood, Buckingham and Country High.
 “These scholarships are funded by voluntary contributions from members of the Vacaville Teachers Association and other VUSD personnel,” said Moira McSweeney, the president of the Vacaville Teachers Association. “We, as a union and a district, are thrilled to be doing our part to help six deserving students return to our district and become educators.”

 The scholarship recipients are, from Will C Wood, Katrina Basinger and Joshua Hunter. VHS seniors Hannah Wernecke and Olivia Jones will also be receiving scholarships as well as Hayley Wylie from Buckingham. Rounding out the list of winners are Ana Spadorcio and Luis Montano from Country High.

 “These winners were selected after passionate debate amongst the hard-working members of our scholarship committee,” said McSweeney. “Since there were so many high-quality applicants for this scholarship, the decision by our committee members wasn’t an easy one, but we are so happy to do our part to ensure that the community of Vacaville will continue to have the best educators working with our kids.”

 Seniors who are interested in applying for these scholarships in 2017 should visit their schools counseling offices to complete applications and, for more information, please visit www.vacateachers.org.