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Registering or Updating your Benefi ciary Form Interested in registering or updating the beneficiaries of your automatic CTA Death & Dismemberment Plan? If so, log in using the orange We Are CTA box, sign in (registration is required for first-time users), click on My Profile next to You Are CTA in the orange box, and then click on the Update Beneficiaries tab and complete the fields. www.cta.org
School’s Back in Session With summer behind us, get tips on getting families involved in their children’s education and the learning process for yearlong support and academic success. www.cta.org/family
Measuring Teacher Eff ectiveness CTA responds to the controversial Los Angeles Times article, “Grading the Teachers: Who’s Teaching L.A.’s Kids?” Check it out, get involved, and help set the record straight. www.cta.org/latimes
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We invite members to send in cartoon concepts for future issues of the Educator. All we ask is that your ideas deal with current events in education and captions are no longer than one sentence long. Please send your cartoon ideas through mail, fax or e-mail.
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