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@CATeachersAssoc | 2 Sept Every generation has its fight for justice. The fight to rebuild the middle class and create a fair economy is ours.
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Wall Street: "We are the 99 percent!"
Citizens of "Main Street" — including educators — are tak- ing to the streets in the Occupy Wall Street movement that has expanded nationwide.
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Karen Traver Linder 2:30am | 24 Sept NCLB is the worst thing that has ever happened to pub- lic education. My opinion is that it was an underhanded attempt to persuade people to eventually accept a voucher system. It does noth- ing other than to set public education up for failure.
CTA David Goldberg 6:44am | 23 Sept
Stand up for kids, not CEOs! The Michigan Education Association produced this popular video calling attention to corporate tax breaks paid for by slashing school funding. youtu.be/qU4nmDTZUtU
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In the time of the most sav- age cuts to public educa- tion, President Obama and Arne Duncan are still push- ing states to adopt their flawed "reforms" which have included test-driven evalua- tions for teachers and more privatization of schools. What a disappointment.
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Breast Cancer Month raises awareness
Thousands of female public school educators have been involved in the California Teachers Study, which monitors breast cancer rates among the state's teachers.
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29 Sept Posted by CTA: Remem- ber when teachers, public employees, Planned Parent- hood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401(k)s, took tril- lions in taxpayer funded bail- outs, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither… Pass it on.
