EC / K-12 NEWS

• Organizing victory for N. CA early childhood educators
• "No Child Left Behind" reauthorization info
• CFT participates in Ed Source "Convening" October 19
• "No public education by corporation," by George Martinez
• New research supports investing in effective pre-K
• "No Time to Quit," by Miles Myers
• CFT Position Paper on Charter Schools (pdf)
• What CFT members can do about the state budget crisis

On January 10, 2008 in Sacramento, CFT president Marty Hittelman responded forcefully to the governor's proposal to suspend Prop 98 and slash the public education budget at a press conference in the CFT office. Hittelman noted the contradiction in the governor's State of the State speech: the governor admitted education needs more funding, and then turned around and demanded cuts in the public education budget.

Hittelman recalled Schwarzenegger was responsible for at least one third of the state's projected $16 billion budget deficit when he eliminated the vehicle license fee for $5 billion per year. The CFT president proposed an alternative to cuts: reinstate the vehicle license fee, and enhance state revenues by closing tax loopholes.

• To download a PDF summary of the CFT's 2008 Education Agenda, click here.
• To view a four minute Quicktime video excerpt of Hittelman's presentation, click here (if you need Quicktime, click here).

• Return to main budget crisis page