Contact Your Legislators:
California Budget
  What can you do about the State budget cuts?
What is CTA doing to protect public education?
Read about it in the March edition of the
CTA Quick Study.

Office of the Governor, State of California
2008-2009 California Budget
Fiscal Emergency Proclamation
Special Session Proclamation

California Legislative Analyst -
2008-2009 Overview of the Governor's Budget (PDF)
Budget "flawed", revenue enhanced should be included

CTA President Sanchez's
statement on the budget proposal
"Devastating"; "Giant step backwards";
"True leadership means setting priorities"

California Eduation Coalition's
statement on the budget proposal
"Disastrous"; "Progress cannot continue";
"We cannot talk about spending cuts without also talking about increasing revenues."

CTA
Budget Watch - March 18, 2008
Status of Budget Crisis
What Lawmakers are Doing
What CTA is Doing
What You Can Do

CTA
Budget Watch - January 23, 2008
Tracking the State's $14.5 billion deficit  (PDF)
"Cutting 10% from public education would be like cutting more than $24,000 per
classroom."

California PTA -
Flunk the Budget
Many resources and advocacy materials relating to the current budget situation

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Acalanes Education Association
web contact:
bdoherty@acalanesteachers.org
Updated: Tuesday, May 6, 2008

California Teachers Association