• Overcrowded classrooms
• Elimination of programs
• Decreased individualized attention
• Elimination of counselor positions
• Further increase in student/ teacher ratio (less attention for your child)

What can you do about this?

1) Sign the petition for the Governor’s tax initiative

2) Follow updates on Beaumont-Banning patch
3) Pass out flyers before & after school, at church, at the sports parks, at the grocery store, and around your neighborhood
4)   Talk to other parents/neighbors
5)   Wear pink every Wednesday in support of our “pink-slipped”teachers
6) Attend a school board meeting wearing pink
7) Speak at a school board meeting and ask the board to direct the district administration to cut all non-essentials before they choose to increase class sizes and cut programs
Contact school board members

Susie Lara- Board President:  slara@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us

Wayne Hackney:  shackney@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us

Mark Orozco: morozco@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us

Margaret DeLongchamp: mdelongchamp@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us

Janelle Poulter: Jpoulter@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us

9)  Contact our local legislators and demand that they stabilize school funding
10) Write an editorial to your  local paper expressing your concern the increase in class size in Beaumont classrooms / over the lack of appropriate school funding by the state.
*   Vote for the Save Our Schools tax increase in November

*Sign the petition stating that class size matters!

CTA Action Alert

Legislation by Headline: Three Bad Bills Would Squash Due Process – Act Now to Defeat Them

Apologists for the Los Angeles Unified School District management’s failure to follow
existing law to protect students from abuse have introduced three measures that
would punish all educators by undermining their due process rights.

All three CTA-opposed bills are to be heard in state legislative committees this
week.SB 1059 (Huff) and SB 1530 (Padilla) are slated for a hearing on Wed.,
April 11, in the Senate Education Committee. AB 2028 (Knight and Smyth)
is scheduled to be heard the same day in the Assembly Education Committee.

CTA representatives have been meeting with Sen. Padilla’s staff, and his staff have
expressed some interest in revising the measure to make it something
productive. The authors of the other measures have not expressed any desire to
amend their measures to address CTA concerns.

SB 1059, AB 2028, and SB 1530 do not address the cascading failures of leadership
in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The bills do not increase district
administrators’ accountability to ensure that learning environments are safe
for our students.

The bills would:

*Eliminate the requirement that a school district give advance notice to a teacher before
moving to dismiss. Imagine allowing only the district to prepare its case, with
no opportunity for the defense to prepare = Due Process Attack #1

*Replace the three-person panel that hears dismissal cases with only an administrative
law judge whose decision will only be advisory and not binding. Imagine
allowing a school board to act as lawyer and judge = Due Process Attack #2

Use the link below to reach the CTA Legislative Action Center for information about contacting the right lawmakers.     Contact Your Lawmaker!

Use these links to read letters from CTA Advocates to lawmakers, spelling out the problems with the bills. sb1530sed   sb1059sed   ab2028aed

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Do you have a student who is graduating from high school this year? If so, have him or her apply for one of our BTA scholarships. Application is due April 20th, 2012. Kelsey Tedrow at San Gorgonio is in charge this year so please direct all questions concerning scholarships to her. Thanks! BTA scholarship application 2012

Please follow link to listen to details on Paycheck Deception Act that will be on the November ballot. It is disguised as a way to limit both union and corporate payroll deductions, but it is a ploy to strip us of our political power. Corporations do not use payroll deductions to contribute to political campaigns, but they are lumped together with unions to make it seem like it’s a good bill. It is not.. please listen.

Teachers please read this ERD MOU for the 2012-2013 school year. You will have a chance to vote for or against ERDs or Late Start Days for next year.

 Proposed contract changes for 2010-2011

Teachers, please read the proposed contract changes for 2010-2011 school year.

Both the ERD day MOU and the Contract for 2010-2011 will be up for a ratification vote. You will receive a link and voting will take place electronically. Please review documents prior to voting.

Thank you.

Monica Rice, Eric Heins and Trina Brown at Fall Leadership Conference in Anaheim

Monica Rice, Organizing Chair

Eric Heins, Vice President of CTA

Trina Brown, 2nd Vice President of BTA

Five teachers attended the San Gorgonio Leadership Conference October 14th through October 16th. The trainings offered involved member benefits, developing your leadership skills, unfair labor practices, teacher evaluation, special education and national board certification, just to name a few. Those of you who have not attended conferences in the past but would like to in the future, please fill out a conference request form available online under “conference resources”. You can check out conference offerings at cta.org.