K-12 Public Education Print E-mail
California has more K-12 students than any other state in the country—over 6.3 million in more than one thousand local school districts.  Yet California ranks 47th in the nation in per pupil funding.
 
Early Childhood/K-12 Council Print E-mail

The CFT Early Childhood/K-12 Council is the policy-making body for the Early Childhood and K-12 segment of the CFT, comprised of the presidents of all the Federation's Early Childhood and K-12 locals.

Officers and Staff

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Teacher Evaluation Task Force Print E-mail

Resolution #8, passed at the CFT 2011 Convention, tasked the EC/K-12 Council with the following:

"...that the California Federation of Teachers take a proactive role and establish a taskforce of education professionals to research, develop, and recommend a series of alternative student achievement measures and other measures of teacher effectiveness that may be used as part of a comprehensive teacher evaluation system."

On August 31 the Task Force met in Sacramento to carry out that resolve. The group was comprised of EC/K-12 President Gary Ravani, UTLA members, Janet Davis, Dan Barnhart, Greg Solkovits, as well as Susan Solomon from UESF.
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Ravani comments on new "parent trigger" regs Print E-mail
July 20, 2011—Last week the state Board of Education issued new regulations governing the "parent trigger" law for struggling schools.  The CFT views the new regulations as an improvement over the original poorly-crafted law, but finds the very concept of the "parent trigger" to be a distraction from the central issues facing public schools.  CFT EC/K-12 Council president Gary Ravani comments in today's San Jose Mercury News in an op-ed piece. 
 
State's teachers are being scapegoated Print E-mail

June 18—EC/K-12 Council president Gary Ravani penned an opinion piece published in the Sacramento Bee on June 18.  He counters the orchestrated ideological campaign to blame teachers for problems in public education with facts and statistics.  To view Gary's article, click here.
 
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