From justinakers at cox.net  Tue Dec  1 06:56:13 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:56:13 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] MEETING: Friday, December 4th, 2009 11am
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This is great, Wayne. This is a big step in networking with the other campuses. 
Facebook page is cool, too. Thanks to the OUTREACH committee for taking a lead on this!

Justin


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Scherer 
  To: Education For All 
  Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:29 AM
  Subject: [Educationforall] MEETING: Friday, December 4th, 2009 11am


   
  Education For All Coalition,
   
  This email is to serve as a reminder for our meeting this coming Friday at 11am.  If you have a topic you'd like to add to the agenda please submit it for inclusion to the E4A email.  Please be aware that at 12pm (and perhaps sooner) guests from organizations headquartered at SDSU will be joining us to discuss collaborative efforts and strategies regarding the budget crisis.  Throughout this past week members of E4A have been in discussions with these organizations to establish a meeting.  Our meeting this coming Friday is being co-op'd with enthusiasm in order to strengthen our local movements and develop the foundation of the cause.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.  Also, in case you missed the Outreach Committee's last communique, we have developed a facebook page and encourage your contribution, promotion, and suggestions to enhance its value to our organization.  Thank you.
   
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=181176232885&ref=nf
   
  -Wayne
  Outreach Committee
   
  SDSU Organizations confirmed for attendance:  FUeL - Frente Universario en Lucha, MECha at SDSU, Revolution 102, Joint Forces

   


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From justinakers at cox.net  Tue Dec  1 17:48:54 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:48:54 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Regional organization meeting for March 4th--LA
	this Saturday
Message-ID: <E8295336E97642EC8634EC8969981906@Justinscomputer>



This Saturday, Dec. 5: Coordinating Committee Meetings: Northern California, Central California and Southern California

Locations: Nor-Cal: City College of SF (Mission Campus); So-Cal: Downtown UCLA Labor Center; Cen-Cal: CSU Stanislaus (Turlock)

As can be seen by the powerful actions of Nov. 18-20, our struggle is gaining momentum! We need your help to coordinate on a regional and statewide level the struggle against the cuts, fee hikes, and layoffs. Everybody is invited to participate this Saturday (Dec. 5th) in the Regional Coordinating Committee to Defend Public Education meetings, which will be held simultaneously in San Francisco, Turlock, and Los Angeles.

The purpose of these meetings is to organize next steps at each of our schools and on a statewide level to unite students, workers, and teachers and their organizations in defense of public education, leading up to the March 4 Strike and Day of Action.

Northern California Location: City College of SF Mission Campus - Rm. 201 (near 24th and Mission BART) - 1125 Valencia St - SF CA -- Time: 1pm - 3pm
Central California Location: CSU Stanislaus, Room: MSR 130 - One University Circle, Turlock, CA: Note the Time: 11 am - 3:15 pm
Southern California Location: Downtown UCLA Labor Center, 675 S Park View St -Los Angeles CA (Note: this is not on the UCLA campus): Time: 1pm - 3pm

Nor-Cal Contact: Jonathan, bruce_frusciante at hotmail.com, (925) 695-6840
Central-Cal Contact: Alejandra, xibalba81 at yahoo.com, (209) 202 6157
So-Cal Contact: Julia, oolia17 at gmail.com, (310) 404-6729

The volunteer Coordinating Committee was formed after the Oct. 24 Conference of over 800 students, workers, and teachers held at UC Berkeley. To join the Coordinating Committee listserve -  oct24coord at lists.berkeley.edu - please contact oct24list at gmail.com if you would like to be added to the email list.

We encourage all individuals, activists, and organizations to join the Coordinating Committee and attend the regional meetings on Dec. 5th. It is open to all! 

In Solidarity,

The Follow-up Sub-Committee
Contact us at: march4strikeanddayofaction at gmail.com
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From justinakers at cox.net  Wed Dec  2 07:30:20 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:30:20 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Student activists bring laid-off worker back to
	their school
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Student activists bring laid-off worker back to their school
The Hamilton High School students staged a sit-in that attracted 500 protesters and appealed to the L.A. Unified school board to bring back Christina Gutierrez.
       
      Christina Gutierrez, center, with the students who helped bring her back to Hamilton High School. They made a polished presentation to the school board. (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times / November 24, 2009)

     




By Amina Khan 
December 1, 2009

LA TIMES

Miss G is back at Hamilton High! 

The beloved office worker for the school's two magnets was laid off by the Los Angeles Unified School District in mid-September. 

"I felt railroaded," Christina Gutierrez, two gold hoops and a stud sparkling from each ear. "I saw something in the mail, and my heart dropped."

Gutierrez, who lost her job because of low seniority, cut her losses and found a job at an elementary school.

Students, however, were not so willing to let her go. They staged a 500-strong sit-in protest on her last day and eventually petitioned the Board of Education to let her return.

Many students, like senior Jimmy Biblarz, had a personal reason to protest Gutierrez's departure. His younger sister, Veronica, had been out sick nearly two months last year and Gutierrez made sure the freshman's homework made it home, and helped her through her first day back.

"She just actually cares," Veronica said. "Not like the fake pretending to care. . . . She takes it seriously."

Four friends -- Jimmy, Noemi "Mimi" Rodriguez, David Kamins and Maya Festinger -- came up with the idea for a sit-in, teleconferencing two nights a week. Jimmy went from class to class to publicize the plan. David looked up rules and regulations. Maya suggested they print informational handouts to give to each protester.

On Miss G's last day, students filed into the humanities building, lining every available space. Students kept doors clear and a few inches of hallway open, but "the walkway was scattered with limbs," Maya said. 



Local district administrator Angela Hewlett-Bloch spoke to the students in the quad. When Principal Gary Garcia asked them to quiet down, he said, "they switched, on their own, to snapping [their fingers] . . . like an old beatnik thing." 

Someone in the crowd came up with the idea to write letters. The students collected 300 letters in support of Gutierrez. 

The four organizers glowed after the protest, Jimmy said, but "Monday we realized Miss G wasn't at school, and nobody was going to take any of us seriously." 

They also had heard that the worker who had replaced Gutierrez preferred to work at an elementary school -- and Gutierrez had found substitute work at an elementary school. Why not switch the two?

The students decided to bring their solution to the Nov. 17 school district board meeting. They watched videos of past board meetings to learn what not to do. They didn't want to sound repetitive -- a common mistake -- or unduly negative. 

"We want to create a legitimate student representation," Maya said. "We don't want to be belligerent or bludgeoning. A lot of what we're about is proposing solutions, rather than listing grievances." 

The students' presentation inspired board member Steven Zimmer to break protocol.

"I know we don't respond to speakers," he said, "but I do want to say that I am extraordinarily impressed with your presentations."

A few days later, the students got word: Miss G. was coming back to Hamilton as a substitute. She's not totally out of the woods but at least she's back, for now.

Gutierrez returned to her old desk last week, where students greeted her with cupcakes and balloons. 

But the mother of four said the students were the real stars.

"This isn't about me," she said. "They should feel so empowered. I am so proud of them."



amina.khan at latimes.com



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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Wed Dec  2 18:14:05 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:14:05 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] Regional organization meeting for March
 4th--LA	this Saturday
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Thanks for sending this out Justin. I was given misinformation of where this meeting is going to take place. This meeting will not be held at the Southern California Library which I sent an e-mail about a week ago stating just that. The actual location of this meeting is stated below. Sorry about the confusion.

 

Profesora Salinas, myself, and Antonio Perez are planning to attend the meeting (I believe Tania showed some interest in attending as well). That makes four of us in one vehicle (I believe there is room for one more in Profe Salinas vehicle if someone is interested). It is still not too late to decide to attend. I would like to motivate and encourage more of us to participate in this meeting for all the reasons stated below. 

 

We are planning on meeting at 9:30am Saturday morning at Presidents Way and Park Blvd. (this is a good place where we could park our cars for a few hours) and driving to L.A. from there. If anybody is planning to drive or attend please let me know ASAP and let me know how many people fit in your car (we should split the gas money amongst those you will be riding with to ease the burden on just a few). See you all on Friday.

 

-Marcos 
 


From: justinakers at cox.net
To: educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:48:54 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Regional organization meeting for March 4th--LA this Saturday




 
 
This Saturday, Dec. 5: Coordinating Committee Meetings: Northern California, Central California and Southern California

Locations: Nor-Cal: City College of SF (Mission Campus); So-Cal: Downtown UCLA Labor Center; Cen-Cal: CSU Stanislaus (Turlock)

As can be seen by the powerful actions of Nov. 18-20, our struggle is gaining momentum! We need your help to coordinate on a regional and statewide level the struggle against the cuts, fee hikes, and layoffs. Everybody is invited to participate this Saturday (Dec. 5th) in the Regional Coordinating Committee to Defend Public Education meetings, which will be held simultaneously in San Francisco, Turlock, and Los Angeles.

The purpose of these meetings is to organize next steps at each of our schools and on a statewide level to unite students, workers, and teachers and their organizations in defense of public education, leading up to the March 4 Strike and Day of Action.

Northern California Location: City College of SF Mission Campus - Rm. 201 (near 24th and Mission BART) - 1125 Valencia St - SF CA -- Time: 1pm - 3pm
Central California Location: CSU Stanislaus, Room: MSR 130 - One University Circle, Turlock, CA: Note the Time: 11 am - 3:15 pm
Southern California Location: Downtown UCLA Labor Center, 675 S Park View St -Los Angeles CA (Note: this is not on the UCLA campus): Time: 1pm - 3pm

Nor-Cal Contact: Jonathan, bruce_frusciante at hotmail.com, (925) 695-6840
Central-Cal Contact: Alejandra, xibalba81 at yahoo.com, (209) 202 6157
So-Cal Contact: Julia, oolia17 at gmail.com, (310) 404-6729

The volunteer Coordinating Committee was formed after the Oct. 24 Conference of over 800 students, workers, and teachers held at UC Berkeley. To join the Coordinating Committee listserve ?  oct24coord at lists.berkeley.edu ? please contact oct24list at gmail.com if you would like to be added to the email list.

We encourage all individuals, activists, and organizations to join the Coordinating Committee and attend the regional meetings on Dec. 5th. It is open to all! 

In Solidarity,

The Follow-up Sub-Committee
Contact us at: march4strikeanddayofaction at gmail.com
 		 	   		  
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Thu Dec  3 08:55:04 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:55:04 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] San Diego Unified School District calls on
 Governor to fix budget with "Progressive Taxes Policies" and simple
 majority!!
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SDUSD Calls For State To Fix Budget

 

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Unified School District's Board of Education Tuesday night unanimously passed a resolution calling for the state government to solve its budget woes without placing further financial burdens on education. 

 



The resolution, sponsored by board member Richard Barrera, calls for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature to take "a balanced approach" to solving fiscal problems "that includes both new revenues and budget cuts to reduce the negative impacts of excessive cuts to education." 

 



The resolution promises the district will advocate "progressive tax policies," and for simple majorities for the Legislature to raise taxes and pass an annual budget. The Assembly and Senate require two-thirds majorities to do both. 













With the state looking at another year of deficits, the San Diego district could face a funding reduction of nearly $200 million for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Barrera said. 

 



That would require the trustees to ax popular athletic and music programs, return to half-day kindergarten, end busing to magnet schools and force them to negotiate with employee unions for "across the board serious pay cuts for every employee, across the board serious benefit cuts for every employee," Barrera said. 

 



Even those reductions wouldn't reach $200 million, he said. 

 



Barrera said proposals for furlough days would have a negligible impact, for to save anywhere close to $200 million, the district would have to reduce the school year by three months. 

 



"What we're saying to the state is, we're calling your bluff," Barrera said. "If you're going to fund us for six months of a school year, don't expect us to have nine months." 

 



Board President Shelia Jackson went further by suggesting the district not open campuses in September if it hasn't received adequate funding. 

 



"I think the state keeps asking us to do more with less, and we do it," Jackson said. "I think we have to stop doing so well with so little and show the state and the nation we're not going to keep doing it on a pittance of funding." 

 



The board was advised last month by its representative in Sacramento that the poor economy will again leave the state government with a shortfall of billions of dollars. 

 



The $200 million impact on the district was viewed at the time as a worst-case scenario, but officials are now worried that the worst might also be the most likely case. 

 



Education from kindergarten through 12th grade represents about 40 percent of state spending, with about 10 percent more going to higher education. Much of the rest goes to health programs and prisons. 

 



The Sacramento representative told the board that the priorities of Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders lean more toward preserving prison and health funding instead of education. 

 



The school board tonight also approved a merger of the grades six through eight Gompers Charter Middle School and grades nine through 12 Gompers Preparatory Academy, both of which have shown marked improvement in student achievement in recent years. 

 



Jackson said after the meeting there has been no direct movement to hiring a new superintendent. The board first wanted to establish goals and a vision for the district, a process now completed, she said. 

 



The district wants to test its plans before the community before seeking a new superintendent. William Kowba, a former admiral and a veteran district executive, holds the job on an interim basis in place of Terry Grier, who took a similar job in Houston. 


 
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From jmiller at sdccd.edu  Thu Dec  3 16:52:03 2009
From: jmiller at sdccd.edu (Jim Miller)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:52:03 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] San Diego Unified School District calls on
	Governor to fix budget with "Progressive Taxes Policies" and
	simple majority!!
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This was a CFT resolution too!  SDCCD is next.  All best, Jim Miller


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Scherer [mailto:wscherer420 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thu 12/3/2009 12:55 AM
To: Education For All
Subject: [Educationforall] San Diego Unified School District calls on
Governor to fix budget with "Progressive Taxes Policies" and simple
majority!!
 

SDUSD Calls For State To Fix Budget

 

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Unified School District's Board of Education
Tuesday night unanimously passed a resolution calling for the state
government to solve its budget woes without placing further financial burdens
on education. 

 



The resolution, sponsored by board member Richard Barrera, calls for Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature to take "a balanced approach" to
solving fiscal problems "that includes both new revenues and budget cuts to
reduce the negative impacts of excessive cuts to education." 

 



The resolution promises the district will advocate "progressive tax
policies," and for simple majorities for the Legislature to raise taxes and
pass an annual budget. The Assembly and Senate require two-thirds majorities
to do both. 













With the state looking at another year of deficits, the San Diego district
could face a funding reduction of nearly $200 million for the 2010-11 fiscal
year, Barrera said. 

 



That would require the trustees to ax popular athletic and music programs,
return to half-day kindergarten, end busing to magnet schools and force them
to negotiate with employee unions for "across the board serious pay cuts for
every employee, across the board serious benefit cuts for every employee,"
Barrera said. 

 



Even those reductions wouldn't reach $200 million, he said. 

 



Barrera said proposals for furlough days would have a negligible impact, for
to save anywhere close to $200 million, the district would have to reduce the
school year by three months. 

 



"What we're saying to the state is, we're calling your bluff," Barrera said.
"If you're going to fund us for six months of a school year, don't expect us
to have nine months." 

 



Board President Shelia Jackson went further by suggesting the district not
open campuses in September if it hasn't received adequate funding. 

 



"I think the state keeps asking us to do more with less, and we do it,"
Jackson said. "I think we have to stop doing so well with so little and show
the state and the nation we're not going to keep doing it on a pittance of
funding." 

 



The board was advised last month by its representative in Sacramento that the
poor economy will again leave the state government with a shortfall of
billions of dollars. 

 



The $200 million impact on the district was viewed at the time as a
worst-case scenario, but officials are now worried that the worst might also
be the most likely case. 

 



Education from kindergarten through 12th grade represents about 40 percent of
state spending, with about 10 percent more going to higher education. Much of
the rest goes to health programs and prisons. 

 



The Sacramento representative told the board that the priorities of
Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders lean more toward preserving prison and
health funding instead of education. 

 



The school board tonight also approved a merger of the grades six through
eight Gompers Charter Middle School and grades nine through 12 Gompers
Preparatory Academy, both of which have shown marked improvement in student
achievement in recent years. 

 



Jackson said after the meeting there has been no direct movement to hiring a
new superintendent. The board first wanted to establish goals and a vision
for the district, a process now completed, she said. 

 



The district wants to test its plans before the community before seeking a
new superintendent. William Kowba, a former admiral and a veteran district
executive, holds the job on an interim basis in place of Terry Grier, who
took a similar job in Houston. 


 
Copyright 2009 by City News Service. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

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From justinakers at cox.net  Thu Dec  3 17:00:30 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:00:30 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] New Wave of Student Activism
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http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2009/12/03/activism
New Wave of Student Activism
December 3, 2009
Inside Higher Ed
WASHINGTON -- Students at California public universities have been staging protests against budget cuts and fee hikes all fall, capturing local and national attention with administration building sit-ins, 24-hour library occupations and large outdoor rallies.

Though they've been the loudest this fall -- and in particular, over the last few weeks, as the University of California Board of Regents voted to raise tuition by 32 percent -- California's students aren't the only ones organizing to protect their financial and educational interests. As institutions and states take red ink to their budgets and green ink to their tuition bills, students in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York have begun speaking out. Students in Canada, Germany and Austria are also agitating against tuition hikes.

"A new era in student activism has . emerged out of California," said Victor Sanchez, president of the University of California Student Association (USCA) and a senior at UC Santa Cruz, at the start of a panel discussion here Wednesday hosted by the Campus Progress branch of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. "It's the beginning of a student movement. It's a movement against the privatization of our public institutions here in the United States."

Angus Johnston, a historian who completed his doctorate at the City University of New York earlier this year and studies American student activism, said he sees "a lot more going on beyond California than most people recognize." When students go to a state capitol or to Congress to lobby for their interests "that's not something that makes The New York Times, that's not something you get on NPR for doing." Smaller campus protests, he added, aren't getting much coverage beyond campus and local media.

In California and increasingly elsewhere, Sanchez said, students don't want to see their state's public colleges and universities turn toward a high tuition, high aid model that looks less like a public institution than a private one, and there "really is a lot of anger." There's anger, too, at private institutions, though students haven't yet galvanized as students at publics have needed to during the recession.

The state of California's budget -- as well as the institutional budgets of the UC, California State University and the state's community colleges -- "is constantly being balanced on our backs," he said, but students are unwilling to see their expenses rise and the actual dollars going toward their educations fall. The same, he added, could be said for students at public colleges and universities across the country.

After several waves of cuts, New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, is proposing additional cuts to higher education. Governors and legislators in Florida, Michigan, Iowa and a number of other states have also cut support for public higher education.

In California's student activism, one problem some see is too much focus on attacking high-level administrators. UC President Mark Yudof, Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau and the system's regents have borne the brunt of activists' anger.

That, said Bruce Cain, director of the UC Washington Center and a professor of political science, is a mistake. "I share your pain. Believe me -- I don't think it's fair that you guys have to pay more. I worry about how that distorts the careers that you guys are going to pursue.. I think all that has to be changed," he said. "But you're not helping us if you're only going to complain about Yudof and not look at the broader picture."

Cain's suggestion to Sanchez and other student activists: take aim at local and state governments, too. "You guys have to be part of the broader political context," he said. "You can't simply be focused on the administrators, some of whom, I admit, haven't made a strong enough case for public education, haven't been out there. But you guys have to take the larger political context seriously because that's what's killing us in the long run."

Sanchez defended how UC students have been protesting. "The targets need to be the UC administration, as well as the state legislature and the governor, most importantly for us," he said, arguing that years of mismanagement have gotten the system to where it is now.

Students, he added, haven't felt like they could work with top administrators in getting their interests heard. "Our relationship has been so fragmented and broken" that it's difficult for the two sides to come together in putting pressure on the state government.

Elsewhere, the targets have been more mixed. At the University of Maryland at College Park, 600 students gathered last month to protest the elimination of the position of associate provost for equity and diversity, which President Dan Mote justified as an appropriate cost-cutting measure. Thirty students at the State University of New York at Geneseo spent three days camped out on a campus quad, taking aim at Paterson's proposed cuts.

Bob Hayes, a junior at Maryland, said he and other activists on his campus are looking toward California and New York as they build their own efforts and plot a path for the spring semester. "I think there is a growing movement of students fighting against privatization, fighting against cost increases, and trying to keep the education as high quality as possible."

Johnston, the historian, said he's gotten phone calls and e-mail messages from several student journalists working on stories comparing the situations on their own campuses and in their own states to California. "That news hook is leading to more media coverage in the student media and in the larger media," he said. "It's going to give us all a bigger picture of what's going and what has been going on for years."

Sanchez said he sees what's happening as the start of a movement to bring change to public higher education. "This is definitely the early stages of what we are hoping for is going to be a new fight for our generation . the fight for an accessible, quality and affordable university."

- Jennifer Epstein
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Subject: [Educationforall] 11-18 meeting notes
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Sat Dec  5 04:56:49 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:56:49 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Southwester College contacts?
Message-ID: <BAY141-W43E3CAC910B3BA01FC2B2F6920@phx.gbl>


 

 

Hello EFA,

 

Does anyone have some contact info for the organizations down at Southwestern College.  I need to get down there to pick up my transcripts and I was thinking I could drop in and meet them at the same time.  Or if anyones knows when they hold their meetings or at least the organization names? Thank you.

 

-Wayne
 		 	   		  
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Sun Dec  6 16:36:14 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:36:14 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] =?windows-1252?q?Student_Organizations_Denounce?=
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Message-ID: <SNT120-W29056AD7418E6BBBA1375CA1910@phx.gbl>


 

Media Alert

December 2, 2009

Student Organizations Denounce SDSU Senate?s Failure to Adopt Resolution on Local Student Admissions

(San Diego) The SDSU chapters of the Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the Association of Chicana Activists(AChA) denounce the failure of the San Diego State University Senate to adopt a resolution on local student admits one day after the closure of the California Sate University System freshman application deadline. The resolution was developed by the Academic Senate?s Diversity, Equity, and Outreach Committee under the leadership of Dr. Anne Donadey in response to the elimination of the local student admit guarantee policy by the SDSU administration. The resolution called for at least 50% of the freshman class of 2010 be comprised of students from the SDSU service area. Its adoption was rejected at the monthly meeting of the Senate on December 1.

According to Jose Madera, chair of MEChA, ?although our organization continues to call for the restoration of the local student admit guarantee policy as the only just solution, we saw the resolution as representing a good faith effort by progressive faculty and staff to support access to SDSU for local students. The introduction of the resolution also offered the SDSU administration an opportunity to support its claim that SDSU ?values? local students. Instead it failed to rise to the occasion. Once again SDSU showed its true colors---disdain and contempt for local students. The fact remains that San Diego State remains the only campus in the entire California State University(CSU) system that has chosen to not honor the local student admit guarantee policy even though it has benefited students and their families.?

Nadia Cruz, chair of AChA, declared, ?we applaud the faculty and staff who developed the resolution. But the failure of the Senate to adopt the resolution shows the continued discouragement of local students by SDSU and how institutional racism and classicism among the leadership of the campus are alive and well. Thousands of local students continue to face the denial of access to the opportunity to earn a bachelor?s degree at SDSU. How can the community have trust in SDSU when its leadership rejects a safe resolution that could have benefited the interests of local students and the campus? The only group that benefits from the failure to adopt the resolution is the SDSU administration with its arrogant determination to keep all power and control over the admissions process no matter what the cost to local students and their families.?

MECHA and AChA are the primary organizations for Latino students on the campus. Annually, each sponsor conferences for local high school students with the intent of motivating students to attend college, acquire information necessary to be eligible for admission, and to undergo an experience of being on a college campus. Since their creation thousands of students have attended the conferences and been inspired to pursue a college degree. 



On November23 the organizations conducted a candle light
vigil in support of the local student admit guarantee policy. Under that policy students who met the eligibility requirements of the California were guaranteed admission to their local campus. The policy was established by the CSU in recognition of the fact that many students across California are place bound. In October the SDSU administration announced the elimination the policy. the elimination of the policy has been met with broad community opposition in the San Diego and Imperial Valley areas. MEChA and AChA will continue to work for the restoration of the local student admit guarantee policy.

Contacts: Jose Madera:
Nadia Cruz: 
 		 	   		  
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Sun Dec  6 21:17:02 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:17:02 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] Tabeling on Tuesday 11am Gordon Quad
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Companeras/os,

 

The Outreach Committee has decided to table and hand out flyers to our next meeting while engaging students and informing them about the Education For All Coalition. A couple of us are going to meet at the Gordon Quad on Tuesday Dec 8th at 11am. We plan on being there for about an hour or so. We would like to encourage students to join us and participate with this task. This is going to be a good opportunity to make our presence on campus known before the start of the spring semester and hopefully get students involved to actively participate for the many events scheduled for January and so on. 

Right now its just Wayne and myself and it would be excellent if we could have at least two more students join us for this outreach efforts. Hope to see some of you there.

 

-Marcos for the Outreach Committee
 		 	   		  
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Mon Dec  7 05:40:42 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:40:42 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Southern California Regional Meeting - EFA
	Response
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Hello Education For All,

 

As you are aware members of our organization attended the Southern California regional meeting in Los Angeles this past Saturday regarding the March 4th action plan.  There were six delegates at the meeting representing the San Diego front, all were members of EFA.  We were excited to meet representation from all factions of the struggle.  The UC, CSU, Community Colleges, K-12 system, Radio, Unions, Parents, and various other elements of society were active in attendance.  Below you'll find a report we've written for the coalitions that attended the meeting summarizing our collective declarations.



Southern California United Coalitions for a Statewide Action
(UC, CSU, CC, K-12, Civil Society) 
Inner-Coalition Report on December 5, 2009 Meeting in Los Angeles
 
 
On December 5th, 2009 at 1pm, the first meeting of the Southern CA Coalition met to discuss a strategy for the statewide demonstration planned for March 4th, 2009.  Central and Northern CA also hosted meetings in an effort to develop the movement and unite existing elements progressing in their own locals and districts.  The mission on the statewide level is to unite students, teachers, communities, and civil society as a whole to develop an effective strategy for resolving the imprudent and insensible reduction by the state in the allocation of funds for education.  It is absolutely essential that the general public be provided the information necessary to recognize that the political response to the state?s economic situation is having an overwhelmingly delitirious effect on California?s working class.
The Southern CA coalition meeting reflected on experiences of the demonstrations held on November 18th thru November 20th.  Representatives of student, teacher, and community organizations from San Diego, Riverside, Orange, and Los Angeles presented their observations in order to refine and organize future action plans.  The tone of the meeting indicated that the foundation of the movement is solidifying into a powerful democratic voice that can represent the interests of students, teachers, and the general working class in California.  This is a responsibility held virtuously where the strategic response is to consider and include civil society beyond the education system, as they are also experiencing the consequences of the state?s decisions.  Within each region, district, and campus there exists independent struggles, ideas, and objectives.  Our foundation, however, weaves each interest into a common cause:  That everyone desires to live in a just society free of unsustainable exploitation and stress. Our actions, though controversial in today?s discourse, are the most effective legal expressions of democracy for the current economic environment.  Within America?s historical movements and declarations for liberty, the most dynamic and influential occurred via workers unions? struggles, civil rights marches, and student strikes.  It is no coincidence that our assertive voice rooted in the fight for educational justice is inspiring the formulation of a collective consciousness by civil society that is also promoting our call to action.
In order to maintain the unification of our establishment it is essential to promote the fundamental needs of which we all share.  That is, it is necessary to implement progressive tax policies, eliminate reckless tax exemptions and tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy, and reform the undemocratic two-third vote requirement that only CA maintains, in the aim of promoting new tax laws and budgets.  Such recommendations serve to encourage solidarity and inhibit alienation, as our assembly includes a broad spectrum of people and circumstances.  The energy that our actions are bringing to society will organically promote the appropriate policies needed to reform the system, which in fact are already being developed.   In such a struggle, selflessness in the spirit of nobility is a requirement above all other interests. 
The opposition?s tactics to defeat our cause is through division and dissolution. By igniting egos and sowing divisions, the experiences that bind us are diffused and a co-optation of our movement by administration officials is secured.  It is important to recognize the difference between an administration that truly pledges support and one that pretends to support in order to manipulate the direction and attitude of the respective event or organization.  This is a grass roots movement of epic magnitude with the ability to enrich society and community, our understanding and compassion offers the ingredients necessary to materialize a successful transformation of the current status quo.   Our greatest strength is our numbers.  They may see hundreds or thousands at our rallies, but we represent millions upon millions.  The element of education that has direct access to this community is the K-12 system.  The impact of education cuts on children will have the greatest impact on their lives and the future direction of society.  The force of this impact is also absorbed by the parents, representing receptive families and communities willing to pledge their support and contribution for their child?s sake.  It is essential that the institutions of higher education support and unite with the movements taking place in the K-12 system.   
The devastating cuts to the educational budget is consequently debilitating the public education system, setting grounds for the politicians to institute its privatization.    Their presented excuse, that the money does not exist to fund education, is a blatant lie.  The issue is a matter of priorities.  California is the richest state in the richest country in the world.  The United States has a larger military budget than the rest of the worlds military budgets combined.  California politicians have been systematically increasing the allocation of funds for prisons while diverging it away from education and social programs.  Our intent must be to cultivate this awareness and ferment the momentum required to realign the state?s priorities and the political officials who have illogically allocated California's financial resources into vain and detrimental investments.  The meeting in Southern California was successful in establishing a declaration of solidarity amongst the coalitions in the struggle for educational justice.  The daunting task of organizing a statewide response to the budget crisis in an effective manner is developing professionally and wisely.  As participants of this movement we must take the growth that materialized at the Southern CA regional meeting and implement a detailed strategy for our own region.    
 
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From minina_888 at yahoo.com  Mon Dec  7 06:01:53 2009
From: minina_888 at yahoo.com (Anika (Niki) Santorelli)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Educationforall] Tabeling on Tuesday 11am Gordon Quad
In-Reply-To: <SNT120-W399C90A46EF2FAE66F9E75A1910@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <203970.93896.qm@web33705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Marcos: I hope to be able to stop and say hi, unfortunately I have 3 classes from 9:30 till 3:30. -Niki-

Marcos Perez wrote: 
> Companeras/os, 
> ? 
> The Outreach Committee has decided to table and hand out flyers?to our next meeting?while engaging students and informing them about the Education For All Coalition. A couple of us are going to meet at the Gordon Quad on Tuesday Dec 8th at 11am. We plan on being there for about an hour or so. We would like to encourage students to join us and participate with this task. This is going to be a good opportunity to make our presence on campus known before the start of the spring semester and hopefully get students involved to actively participate for the many events scheduled for January and so on. 
> Right now its just Wayne and myself and it would be excellent if we could have at least two more students join us for this outreach efforts. Hope to see some of you there. 
> ? 
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Mon Dec  7 08:16:04 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:16:04 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Flyer for December 18th Meeting
Message-ID: <BAY141-W236187DEE9FBC8E4E75410F6900@phx.gbl>


 

Hello Education For All,

 

Attached you'll find the flyer for our upcoming meeting on December 18th, 2009.  The outreach committee would like to encourage everyone to print out copies and distribute them diligently in a push to grow our establishment before the end of the semester.  I've also included blank templates if anyone would like to utilize the designs.  Peace.

 

-Wayne

Outreach Committee
 		 	   		  
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Mon Dec  7 08:20:11 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:20:11 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] FW: Flyer for December 18th Meeting
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Just looked at the flyer and I wanted to add an apostrophe to "Todays Lesson".  So here is the revised flyer.  Sorry and thanks!
 


From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com
To: educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Flyer for December 18th Meeting
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:16:04 -0800



 
Hello Education For All,
 
Attached you'll find the flyer for our upcoming meeting on December 18th, 2009.  The outreach committee would like to encourage everyone to print out copies and distribute them diligently in a push to grow our establishment before the end of the semester.  I've also included blank templates if anyone would like to utilize the designs.  Peace.
 
-Wayne
Outreach Committee



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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Mon Dec  7 19:21:57 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:21:57 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] DAVID BACON: The human cost of California's
	budget cuts
Message-ID: <SNT120-W418057A32DA260E32B66A1A1900@phx.gbl>


http://www.democratizingeducation.org/news/david_bacon_cost_of_budget_cuts
 
BACON: The human cost of California's budget cuts



November 17, 2009
by David Bacon

The Perspective
 

Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. "Now it's hard to achieve my dream,? he says, ?because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes." Cota, a student at LA City College, was encouraged by the internship program of the LA College Faculty Guild to describe the human cost of budget cuts in he community college system.

David Robinson, who?s worked since he was 14, hoped he?d get automotive mechanic training, and a good job at the end of it. ?But by cutting these programs and raising fees,? he says, ?you're cutting opportunity for a lot of people who need it."

Another endangered student is Tina Vinaja, a mother of three teenagers whose husband took a weekend job to help pay her tuition hikes. Monica Mejia, a single mom, wants to get out of the low-wage trap. "Without community college,? she says, ?I'll end up getting paid minimum wage. I can't afford the fee hikes. I can barely make ends meet now.?

LA City College even suspended its sports programs for a year. The school had a legendary basketball program that gave low-income students a pathway out of poverty. JaQay Carlyle says city college basketball sent him to UC Davis and on to law school.

These students make up a small part of the picture of suffering engendered by the economic crisis in the community college system. According to Marty Hittelman, president of the California Federation of Teachers, and a former community college instructor, the system will turn away over 250,000 students this year alone. ?Where can they go?? he asks. ?UC? CSU? The workforce? None is a viable option-for both economic and political reasons.? California has a 12% unemployment rate, one of the nation?s highest. UC enrollment plunged by 2300 students this fall, and the regents plan 10% tuition hikes in each of the next two years. The state universities dropped 40,000 students this year alone. UC fees have gone up 215% since 2000, and CSU fees 280%. Community college fees, once non-existent, rose 30% just last year.

?As a result,? Hittelman says, ?hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in California community colleges are unable to get the classes they need and thousands of temporary faculty are without classes to teach. So, as in the universities, the student returns for paying higher fees are increased class size and fewer available classes.?

Brenna Fluitt will face an especially difficult situation because of class cuts. Fluitt is a homeless student at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. ?I?m not the only one,? she says. ?I see them on the campus a lot, although to most people, we tend to be kind of invisible.?

Fluitt?s been on the streets for three years. Part of what keeps her there is anxiety itself, which is so serious that she?s classified as a disabled student. Clearly budget cuts produce even more anxiety. The two programs she depends on to keep in school, DSPS and EOPS, are both facing cuts. ?The reality is that people who need these services won?t be able to get them,? she predicts. While she often says that a homeless life doesn?t bother her, she sometimes lets the reality reveal itself. ?I?m sick and tired of being homeless,? she declares. ?The cops harass you here, and its? a very expensive community to live in.?

Fluitt sees education as her pathway to a good job, permanent housing, and a life off the streets. Right now, though, she lives in a van. She gets her mail at her parents? home, while other homeless students receive theirs at two local agencies that offer mail-receiving services to people who don?t have a fixed address. ?I need school,? she explains. ?Before I started, I felt I had a label on my forehead saying ?I?m homeless.? I just wanted to be by myself, and stay in the car.?

Fluitt wants to study accounting, and knows that she could make a living with an AA degree if she can get through the next two years at Cuesta. ?I like math and I?m good at it,? she says, ?and I find computer science easy for me as well.? But when she went to get her classes this fall, she couldn?t pre-register and had to add them as she could get them. And she was lucky. Many other students found themselves turned away from overflowing classrooms. ?I don?t know what classes they?ll cut next,? she says. ?One class I need is only given this fall, and they?re cutting it next spring. I don?t know if I?ll be able to get what I need.?

That insecurity is shared with teachers and classified workers as well. Emily Haraldson, a freeway flyer who teaches art history, found herself without one of her two jobs when the fall semester began. She got her first position as an instructor at Mount San Antonio College in 2004, after getting her degree at Cal State Northridge. That gave her two classes. Then, in 2005, she got another three classes at Glendale Community College.

She tried working at the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard three years ago, but living in Los Angeles, curating in Oxnard, and teaching in Walnut led to putting 20,000 miles a year on her car. And she found that part time community college positions, for all their problems, pay a lot better than museums.

This summer she got a letter from her department chair at Mount SAC, noting that the college ?was cutting 5% off the top,? and telling her she might not get as many classes as she wanted. After sending her schedule in to her supervisor, however, she was told there were no classes available for her at all.

?That cut my income by a third right away,? she says. ?We fell a month behind on our mortgage, so we don?t eat out, go to movies or rent DVDs. I didn?t buy new clothes for my two boys, and don?t have the money for preschool for the youngest.? Fortunately, Haraldson?s husband is a musician with a steady gig. That helped make up for the lack of preschool, and even more important, for the lack of money. ?As it is, we?re considering selling my car,? she notes.

Haraldson sees students suffering the consequences as well. ?At Glendale, I?ve had students begging to get into my classes. We can only accept 3-5 over our cap, and it?s next to impossible to accommodate everybody.?

It?s hard to envision a future as a teacher in these circumstances, she says. ?Teaching will always be part of my life ? I?m called to do it. But I may not be doing it here. Full time jobs are next to impossible to find, and now adjunct jobs are getting cut. Still, I can?t complain. A lot of other people have it worse off.?

One of them might be Karen Schadel, an administrative assistant to the dean of social sciences at Yuba College in Marysville. Schadel has not only done that job for 14 years ? she practically invented it, or ?massaged it,? as she puts it. ?I schedule 200 classes every semester,? she explains. ?I work with 15 full faculty members, and over 30 part time instructors. The relations you form in this job are very strong. Now I?ve been told this job can be done by a secretary.?

Schadel, a member of the California School Employees Association, says the decision to eliminate jobs was very sudden. District administration announced they were cutting the positions of 56 classified employees and two managers. The Board of Trustees ?rubberstamped? the decision on October 14, she says.

These positions account for 590 years of service. There won?t be a cashier, or an interpreter for disabled students, or a science lab technician. The transfer center career counselor, who?s been there for 24 years and is fighting cancer, will be gone. The athletic facilities maintenance person, with 35 years, will be eliminated, along with three custodians. ?This place is already dirty, and without them, it will be filthy,? she predicts. ?And if you call to get something cleaned, there won?t be anyone to answer the phone.?

The district has eliminated 56 units of classes this semester, and cut 59 units last semester, a process called ?schedule compression.?

Increasing the frustration, the district has refused to release any budget information. ?They tell us we don?t need to see it,? Schadel fumes. And while the state only mandates a 5% reserve, the district is insisting on upping that to 7%. ?They?re balancing their budget on classified employees,? she declares. ?I don?t feel any confidence in their ability to made good decisions. If they won?t show us the budget numbers, how do we know they?re telling us the truth about the need to do all this??

Susan Downing, the campus operation specialist for the college site located on nearby Beale Air Force Base, has similar doubts. ?They?re laying off all the staff that provide the services to a thousand students here,? she says. ?When I asked them what the plan was for continuing, they said there was none.?

That could lead to elimination of the program itself, since the district has a memorandum of understanding with the military specifying the kinds of services it will provide to the currently enlisted personnel, their families, veterans, and other civilians who take courses at the base. Some soldiers even take classes online, while they?re serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The district pays nothing for the buildings and facilities it uses on base.

?I?m 57 years old, and I?ve been doing this job for 22 years,? Downing says. ?I have no retirement rights, so I?ll be put on the street. My husband is a veteran disabled since 1990, and I survived cancer a year ago. It took all we had. Economically, this will put us in a very bad position. They?re not only breaking our hearts with this, but they?re breaking our spirit.?

While Schadel will be able to bump a less senior employee, she has no guarantee that the second job won?t be eliminated as well. ?Bumping someone out makes me feel crummy to begin with,? she says. ?But my husband is disabled, and if that job goes away, we?ll lose our house and car. Everything is up in the air right now. I?m a wreck. You can?t talk to anyone for five minutes around here without them breaking down and crying. Morale is below zero.?

That describes pretty well the feelings of community college teachers, workers and students throughout California. It is the human cost of budget cuts.
 		 	   		  
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From thecitybeatclub at gmail.com  Wed Dec  9 04:06:48 2009
From: thecitybeatclub at gmail.com (City BEAT Club)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:06:48 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] OPERATION F.U. (Front St. University)
Message-ID: <5ef55eb90912082006w4dd39e57q86b9734e1624988c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,
As promised, BEAT has put together a flyer for Operation FU--the
intersession protest and rally at the Governor's Office the 4th-8th of
January.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE circulate this flyer widely to anyone in
California who cares about education.  We are inviting everyone to join us
for the rally (especially the one on the 4th of January to kick off the
week).

If you have any further questions please email:
operationfu at gmail.com or check out the FRONT FU Facebook page!

Peace,
BEAT

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The City College B.E.A.T. Club:
BRINGING EDUCATION & ACTIVISM TOGETHER
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:18:06 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Dec 10th Education is a Human Right Rally @SDSU
	(Updated Flier)
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:39:05 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Budget Crisis: Ethnic Studies and Allies
	Organizing Meeting-- Dec. 9, 4pm; AGENDA ATTACHED]
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Budget Crisis: Ethnic Studies and Allies Organizing Meeting-- Dec. 9, 4pm; AGENDA ATTACHED]
If anyone can attend that would be great, otherwise, they responded to my email and said
they would make our next meeting. 

==================



Hola Profe.
This is Carmina. I would like to invite you to the meeting being held this
week at UCSD Ethnic Studies Department concerning the budget crisis. The
local UC, UCS and Community Colleges need to work together and build a
strong front. City needs to be present and maybe you can share with us
what the community colleges are doing.

Please let me know if you can make it. (please see attached document)
En Solidaridad
Carmina


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From justinakers at cox.net  Fri Dec 11 07:45:53 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:45:53 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Police attack SFSU occupation
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Police attack SFSU occupation
Alex Fu and Sid Patel report from San Francisco on a building occupation at SFSU that ended in a police assault and dozens of arrests.

December 11, 2009

http://socialistworker.org/print/2009/12/11/police-attack-sfsu-occupation
IN THE early morning hours of December 10, police in full riot gear attacked a peaceful building occupation at San Francisco State University that was organized to protest budget cuts, furloughs for faculty and fee hikes.

The police broke into the business administration building through a window and proceeded to clear it with guns drawn, endangering the safety of all the activists. Officers forced open doors from the inside and violently shoved aside students picketing the entrances on the outside, throwing some to the ground. In all, 28 students were cited and released, on charges ranging from traffic citations, to failure to disperse, to trespass.

Clearly, the SFSU administration decided to both ignore the grievances of students and collude with police to violently remove them.

The occupation of the building began early Wednesday morning. About 20 students barricaded themselves inside, declaring an end to "business as usual" and presenting a list of demands [2]. Hundreds of students came out to hold pickets at each of the building's entrances throughout the day.

At the high point of the action, over 300 students formed a human chain that circled the building. Cash-strapped students found ways to donate blankets, food and drinks to both the occupiers and those picketing outside. Members of the community, faculty and staff came out to show support, and protest organizers from City College of San Francisco, University of California Berkeley and University of California Santa Cruz came to campus to participate in the solidarity actions.

The occupation took place in the midst of registration for spring classes, as more and more class sections have been cut and fees are increasing. The idea that galvanized the very frustrated student population is the idea that if they take our classes, we'll take their buildings.

"I came out because I support my friends who are a part of this," said student Keri-Ann Oddman. "I'm probably going to get dropped from financial aid, and I'm basically done with it. It's either action now, or they're going to walk all over us."

When some of the occupiers were released from detention, they spoke out. "Today, we saw an increased excitement and involvement in student activism," said senior Aaron Salazar. "And that is what gave a lot of us our endurance to carry on. From here, we need to take those people that showed up and plug them into organizations, so that this energy can grow and materialize into a victory for workers around the state."

Freshman Napaquetzalli Martinez added: "The most inspiring part of the occupation was that it was part of the larger working class struggle, not only about the cuts at our school."
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THE OCCUPATION was an important indicator of the campus mood as organizers move toward a day of strikes and protests to defend public education, set for next March 4, and to involve not the UC and CSU system campuses, but teachers, parents and students in pre-K through 12th grade education. At SFSU, mini-General Assemblies were held at each entry point to the occupied building, where ideas for March 4 were discussed.

The administration at SFSU has demonstrated that it has no desire to engage with students about even the most basic demands, such as restoring a several-thousand-dollar budget for the Ethnic Studies Student Resource and Empowerment Center. The shameful fact is that many of these administrators enjoyed big raises on top of their large salaries and perk-packages over the past few years, even as classes have been cut, faculty and workers laid off, and fees hiked.

One important criticism of the occupation has come from faculty and students involved in the campus movement--the action was organized in secret by a small group of activists, and intentionally excluding other leading campus activists. The result was that the number of occupiers was small, and outside support had to be put together hastily. This only made it easier for the police to break up the occupation.

Secondly, the occupation was organized on the same day as a planned SFSU General Assembly--and actually caused its cancellation. Dozens of students, faculty and staff had been planning for the general assembly as the next step in building a democratic, united movement on campus.

Building the General Assembly is still an urgent task--the next one will take place on Wednesday, December 16 (postponed from the previous week). A united, democratic effort is the best hope of building for mobilizing students, faculty and staff to strike and shut down SFSU's campus on March 4--and of moving beyond to get the budget cuts taken back.

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What you can do
Support the peaceful occupiers by calling the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Dr. J.E. Saffold at 415-338-2032 and demanding that all charges be dropped and no disciplinary action be taken against the protesters.

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Material on this Web site is licensed by SocialistWorker.org, under a Creative Commons (by-nc-nd 3.0) [3] license, except for articles that are republished with permission. Readers are welcome to share and use material belonging to this site for non-commercial purposes, as long as they are attributed to the author and SocialistWorker.org.

  1.. [1] http://socialistworker.org/department/Activist-News
  2.. [2] http://occupysfsu.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/demands-for-our-occupation/
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From justinakers at cox.net  Fri Dec 11 07:56:21 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:56:21 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Assembly panel struggles with education bills
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Some significant wrangling going on in Sacramento concerning the potential 
changes in ed law to allow for the increase of unregulated charter schools (in some cases
tied to corporate efforts at privatization) and the tying of faculty evaluation to school 
performance which is an effort to weaken unions and collective bargaining efforts.
Gloria Romero's (Democrat in the the Senate) Bill, which attempted to push the above efforts was defeated in favor of   
of a union-supported bill. As the articles point out, the debate continues. This is why our
activities as students and faculty are so crucial...to impact this debate. 



http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/2384521.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+edsource/school_finance+(EdSource+|+School+Finance+News+Articles)


Assembly panel struggles with education bills
dlambert at sacbee.com
PUBLISHED THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 2009



The Assembly Committee on Education pushed forward a bill Wednesday favored by unions and effectively shut down a bill supported by some education advocates and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The committee voted 10-6 to approve Assembly Bill X5 8, authored by Education Committee Chairwoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica.

Six members of the committee then voted in favor of Senate Bill X5 1, while five voted against it and others abstained, remained silent or weren't present for the vote - effectively killing the bill, which needed nine votes to pass.

After the vote, the measure's author, Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, expressed dismay that her "bill was killed by silence."

Both bills outline plans to meet federal requirements for winning a share of the $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds being offered to the nation's schools.

The criteria include an overhaul of standards and assessments, using data systems to support instruction, implementing a plan to turn around the lowest-performing schools, and training and supporting teachers and administrators.

The bills have different approaches to meeting these requirements. The Romero bill included provisions to give parents a stronger voice in how schools are run, while Brownley's bill would establish more oversight for charter schools, among other differences.

State politicians need to agree on a bill soon if California is to be eligible for the Race to the Top funds. The deadline to pass legislation and submit applications for the one-time money is Jan. 19.

But Brownley expressed confidence Wednesday evening that her bill would fulfill Race to the Top requirements, saying, "Our legislation closely adheres to the Obama administration's guidelines and makes long-term improvements to our children's educational environment. It's a good day for California schools."

The Assembly bill is scheduled for a floor vote today. If passed, it would still have to survive a vote in the Senate and cross the governor's desk, where it could be vetoed.

Wednesday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement saying the bill adds layers of bureaucracy to charter schools and removes parental choice, threatening the state's chances to win Race to the Top funds.

"Today the Assembly and its leaders let down California's children, schools and parents," Schwarzenegger said in the statement. "President Obama issued a challenge: This is the Race to the Top, not race to the status quo."

The potential for a veto could move the groups to cooperate to produce one piece of legislation that satisfies all sides.

But Romero was hopeful that the Assembly Education Committee would reconsider her bill. After the vote, she asked Brownley to do just that. Brownley agreed. Romero said the committee could reconvene to take another vote on her legislation as early as today.

Romero said she is not opposed to both bills being signed.

The Education Committee voted on two other bills Wednesday, with two very different outcomes. AB X5 2 by Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San Jose, was held in committee for further revisions. It would offer incentives to teachers linked to pupil performance, provide for closing failing schools and require a reduction in the number of outdated compliance issues in the education code, among other things.

A bill by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, was quickly passed. It would provide a process for responding to requests for student data for a new state education data system. The bill is scheduled for a floor vote today.



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Schwarzenegger threatens to veto school reform legislation
December 10, 2009 |  2:42 pm
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today threatened to veto an Assembly version of legislation to reform California's schools, saying it falls short of the steps needed to overhaul education and make the state more competitive for $700 million in federal funds.

Schwarzenegger supports a state Senate bill that goes further in giving parents the ability to move their kids from poorly performing schools and force changes at such schools. The reforms are seen by Schwarzenegger as important to compete for federal Race to the Top grants. He also said the Assembly measure inhibits the formation and renewal of charter schools.

"I think it's unacceptable for the Assembly to water down the education reforms, and I want to make it clear I will not sign the bill the way it is," Schwarzenegger said at a Capitol news conference. "This is a race to the top, not a race to mediocrity, or a race to the status quo."

The full Assembly is scheduled to take up the legislation, ABX5 8, as early as this afternoon.

-- Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Fri Dec 11 18:35:26 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:35:26 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] AP: UC Berkeley students arrested in campus
	protest
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 UC Berkeley students arrested in campus protest





 
By The Associated Press
 
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8:03 a.m.
 
BERKELEY, Calif. ? Police at the University of California, Berkeley have arrested dozens of protesters who have been staked out in a campus building for the past week. 
 
Several dozen students had taken over parts of Wheeler Hall as part of a demonstration against state funding cuts that have resulted in enrollment cuts and sharp student fee hikes. 
 
Protesters, who have occupied the hall since Monday, had said they would leave Friday night. 
 
But early Friday, police entered the hall and arrested people about 65 people. 
 
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof says about 24 of them are not students there. He says they'll be facing trespassing charges. 
 
The UC Berkeley incident follows the arrests Thursday of 12 San Francisco State University students in a similar protest. 
 
The Associated Press
 


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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Wed Dec 16 17:16:42 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:16:42 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
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Here is the proposed agenda for EFA 12/18 meeting:
 
1. Introductions- 5min
 
2. Report backs- Dec 5th SoCal regional meeting/ UCSD faculty coalition meeting- 20min
 
3. January 4th- Updates. How can EFA contribute besides attending event? 20min
 
4. Continue organizing for Jan 23 Summit with Joint Forces- flyer/e-mail blast, making K-12 connections, getting unions on board, location (SDSU?), ect... 20 min
 
5. Proposal from Marcos- creating student leadership, democratically electing a Coordinating Committee- 1) composed of 3 students  2)solicit agenda items/set agenda 3) Maintain club status and attend mandatory campus meetings 4) Follow up with action items 20 min
 
6. Continued discussion of purpose of EFA, goals, and direction. 15 min

7. Announcements

 

 
 		 	   		  
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From kiog_89 at yahoo.com  Wed Dec 16 19:13:38 2009
From: kiog_89 at yahoo.com (Karla Ocampo)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:13:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Educationforall] Is there no hope for our people?
Message-ID: <429073.5598.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Are we doomed to live
on the lookout for the border patrol/ICE/INS? 



Yesterday, my little
sister, a fifteen-year-old mother, was on her way to the mountains hoping to
find some snow. Instead, she found the border patrol. She was treated like a
criminal and was immediately taken to the border. She is underage and they told
her if she did not sign the documents saying that she was willingly leaving,
they would take her baby away and send her to jail. She was deported and is now
in Tijuana, her year old baby is here without her mother and needs her.


The fact that she is
an immigrant does not make her a criminal, and that is what she was treated
like. Has the border patrol lost the little humanity they had left? They are
now treating immigrant teenagers like criminals as if we consciously chose to
come to the United States knowing that it is illegal. We did not choose to come
here. We were brought here by our parents hoping we would have a better life,
my parents like many others, brought us here so that we could get a higher
education. Unfortunately, by the time we realize we are ?illegal? and it is
harder for us to pay for college, we have lived here too long to go back to our
country. 



Even if you are not
an immigrant, sometimes as long as you look like one, they harass you and ask
for proof of citizenship. 



It is time to stop
this terrorism, they are terrorizing families, adults and now children. We,
immigrants are the result of the decisions made by this government. Them with their
great prosperous ideas such as NAFTA, CAFTA, ?free trade?, industrialization of
third world countries (as they call them), and their involvement with external
affairs that do nothing but exploit the land and people and bring wealth only to the rich. They mess up with
society and culture in other countries and when the effects of those actions
affect this side of the border they bleach the media making us look like we are
the problem, when in fact it is them.


When is this going to
stop? When they come up with a tactic to take us all out or when we get tired of
the oppression? They have tried taking the adults out and since that is not
working they are starting with the teenagers.


With sincere concern,


Karla
Ocampo

MEChA de SDCC




      
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Wed Dec 16 22:37:28 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:37:28 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
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Hola Profe Davalos,

 

Sorry for not including the info. The meeting will take place Friday 12/18 at 11am in room R-115. 


-Marcos 


Subject: RE: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:21:57 -0800
From: edavalos at sdccd.edu
To: marcosresiste at hotmail.com







Hola Marcos,
 
What time is the meeting? Same place?
 
Enrique Davalos
 


From: Marcos Perez [mailto:marcosresiste at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:17 AM
To: educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
 

 

 
Here is the proposed agenda for EFA 12/18 meeting:
 
1. Introductions- 5min
 
2. Report backs- Dec 5th SoCal regional meeting/ UCSD faculty coalition meeting- 20min
 
3. January 4th- Updates. How can EFA contribute besides attending event? 20min
 
4. Continue organizing for Jan 23 Summit with Joint Forces- flyer/e-mail blast, making K-12 connections, getting unions on board, location (SDSU?), ect... 20 min
 
5. Proposal from Marcos- creating student leadership, democratically electing a Coordinating Committee- 1) composed of 3 students  2)solicit agenda items/set agenda 3) Maintain club status and attend mandatory campus meetings 4) Follow up with action items 20 min
 
6. Continued discussion of purpose of EFA, goals, and direction. 15 min

7. Announcements
 
 
 



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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Wed Dec 16 23:36:53 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:36:53 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] March 4th National Day of Action to Defend
 Education - OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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Hello EFA,

The statewide call to action has organically manifested into a national call.  In fact some would say international since the US call has been receiving solidarity from worldwide education movements such as those occurring in Europe and Latin America.  Below is the website which was launched yesterday as the internet front.  Please take a moment to look into the website, its very empowering to see the magnitude of what we are involved in.  Notice EFA is a listed endorser!

In Solidarity,

-Wayne
Education For All, San Diego

http://www.defendeducation.org/


March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education 

 

As people throughout the country struggle under the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression, public education from pre-K to
higher and adult education is threatened by budget cuts, layoffs,
privatization, tuition and fee increases, and other attacks. Budget
cuts degrade the quality of public education by decreasing student
services and increasing class size, while tuition hikes and layoffs
force the cost of the recession onto students and teachers and off of
the financial institutions that caused the recession in the first
place. Non-unionized charter schools threaten to divide, weaken and
privatize the public school system and damage teachers? unions, which
are needed now more than ever. More and more students are going deep
into debt to finance their education, while high unemployment forces
many students and youth to join the military to receive a higher
education. And all of the attacks described above have hit working people and people of color the hardest.

In California, students, teachers, workers, parents, and faculty
have taken action against these attacks. They took to the streets in a
one-day strike on September 24th, organized strikes and actions across
the state during the University of California Board of Regents meeting
from November 18th to 20th, and have called for a state-wide day of
action on March 4th. These actions have created a broad mass movement
in California, drawing in students from all over the state to create a
powerful struggle. As the effects of the economic crisis continue to
spread into the education system nationally, it?s time to join our
voices with students and workers in California and draw inspiration
from their example.

We support each group or coalition organizing in the manner and for
the duration of their choosing. In solidarity with those in California,
we the below-signed individuals and organizations call on students,
teachers, workers, parents, faculty, and staff  across the country to
join together on March 4th to Take A Stand For Education!



Visit the Web site for more details at http://www.defendeducation.org.

Endorse the call at the bottom of the page or by sending an email to march4nationaldayofaction at gmail.com.

Find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=213637229312.

To join the national discussion, please visit the March 4th Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/march4thaction.





ENDORSED BY:

Organizations

All Nations Alliance

Animas Students for a Democratic Society (Durango, Coloardo)

Bail Out the People Movement

Chicago Students for a Democratic Society

College Park Students for Democratic Society (University of Maryland)

Community Organizing Center for Mother Earth (Columbus, Ohio)

Connecticut Students Against the War

CUNY Campaign to Defend Education

Education For All, San Diego

Fight Imperialism, Stand Together

Georgia State University Progressive Student Alliance

Graduate Student Employees Union (SUNY Stony Brook)

Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society

National Assembly to End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupations

New School in Exile

NYC Anti-War Coalition

Peoples Video Network

Progressive Democrats of America-Ohio

Radical Student Union (Bard College)

Recreate ?68 Alliance

Socialist Organizer

Socialist Party of Connecticut

Solidarity

SPEAK (Students Promoting Engagement Through Activism and Knowledge) at Georgia State University

Student/Farmworker Alliance

Students for Educational Rights (City College of New York)

Students Taking Action to Reclaim our Education (University of Maryland)

UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society

UW-Milwaukee Education Rights Campaign



Individuals (*all organizations listed for identification purposes only)

Frantz Mendes, President United Steelworkers L. 8751 ? Boston School Bus Drivers Union*

Steve Gillis, Vice President United Steelworkers L. 8751 ? Boston School Bus Drivers Union*

Susan Massad, Associate Professor Framingham State College*

Ed Childs, Chief Steward UNITE/HERE L. 26 (Harvard Univ.)*

Phebe Eckfeldt, Harvard Union Rep., Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers (HUCTW)/AFSCME L. 3650*

Eleanor J. Bader, writer and adjunct faculty member, Brooklyn, NY*

Peter Cook, Boston Teachers Union, Local 66 MFT AFT, AFL-CIO*

Heather Cottin Adjunct Lecturer, History, LaGuardia Community College, PSC member*

Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers Local 1981*

Mike Gimbel, Local 375, AFSCME delegate to the NYC-CLC & Chairperson of Local 375, AFSCME, Labor/Community Unity Committee*

Martha Grevatt, Chair, Civil Rights Committee, UAW Local 122*

Andy Griggs, United Teachers Los Angeles; Co-chair, California
Teachers Association Peace and Justice Caucus; Steering Committee, US
Labor Against the War*

Dr. Sue Harris, Co-Director, Peoples Video Network*

Imani Henry, Playwright/Performer*

Dan La Botz, Spanish teacher, Cincinnati Waldorf School, Cincinnati, Ohio*

Julia La Riva, member of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)*

Robin McCubbin, professor, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA*

Minnie Bruce Pratt, Professor, Women?s & Gender Studies, Syracuse University*

David Sole, Prof. of Chemistry, Wayne Co. Community College, Detroit.*

The Most Rev. Filipe C, Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of Saint Francis of Assisi*

Billy Wharton, National Co-Chair, Socialist Party USA*

Todd Vachon, Low Society Music*

Christopher Hutchinson, General Strike Comics*

Robin Anderson, Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) at UMass-Amherst, Part of UAW local 2322*

Others who are supporting March 4th Actions:

California Coordinating Committee

US Labor Against the War

 		 	   		  
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From larteaga75 at yahoo.com  Thu Dec 17 03:24:00 2009
From: larteaga75 at yahoo.com (Luis Arteaga)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:24:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Educationforall] Hope this something that will inform you
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Hope you have time to read this information, just read?it today,?is this for reals or just facts?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091216/ap_on_go_ot/us_white_minority
?Companero,
Luis Arteaga
larteaga75 at yahoo.com 


      
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Thu Dec 17 06:51:31 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:51:31 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
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It appears we will be having some guests from organizations at UCSD joining us.  Also the team from Joint Forces will be in attendance as well to discuss the developing plan for the January 23rd San Diego summit.  I'd suggest that we focus as much time as possible on the January 4th event and discussing with our guests some collaborative actions, such as helping to organize the San Diego summit.  Thoughts anyone?

-Wayne
Outreach Committee

From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com
To: edavalos at sdccd.edu; educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:37:28 -0700
Subject: Re: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting








Hola Profe Davalos,

 

Sorry for not including the info. The meeting will take place Friday 12/18 at 11am in room R-115. 


-Marcos 


Subject: RE: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:21:57 -0800
From: edavalos at sdccd.edu
To: marcosresiste at hotmail.com







Hola Marcos,
 
What time is the meeting? Same place?
 
Enrique Davalos
 


From: Marcos Perez [mailto:marcosresiste at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:17 AM
To: educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for 12/18 EFA meeting
 

 

 
Here is the proposed agenda for EFA 12/18 meeting:
 
1. Introductions- 5min
 
2. Report backs- Dec 5th SoCal regional meeting/ UCSD faculty coalition meeting- 20min
 
3. January 4th- Updates. How can EFA contribute besides attending event? 20min
 
4. Continue organizing for Jan 23 Summit with Joint Forces- flyer/e-mail blast, making K-12 connections, getting unions on board, location (SDSU?), ect... 20 min
 
5. Proposal from Marcos- creating student leadership, democratically electing a Coordinating Committee- 1) composed of 3 students  2)solicit agenda items/set agenda 3) Maintain club status and attend mandatory campus meetings 4) Follow up with action items 20 min
 
6. Continued discussion of purpose of EFA, goals, and direction. 15 min

7. Announcements
 
 
 



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From maderaj3 at yahoo.com  Sat Dec 19 02:18:23 2009
From: maderaj3 at yahoo.com (Jose Madera)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:18:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Educationforall] SDSU Delivers Empty Christmas Present with
	Incomplete Records Disclosure
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Education Consortium of San Diego County
For Immediate Release 
December 17, 2009

Contact: Leo Carrillo, Education Consortium
Phone: (619) 756-4303
Email: equalitysandiego at gmail.com

SDSU Delivers Empty Christmas Present with Incomplete Records Disclosure
ACLU sends demand letter on behalf of the Education Consortium for full disclosure

San
Diego, CA ? In an effort to better understand who SDSU consulted with
prior to eliminating the local admissions guarantee, the Education
Consortium submitted a public records act request in October. What they
got back was over 2,000 pages that failed to include significant
documents encompassed in the request. 

Chief among the missing
documents are records of an enrollment management plan and any
consultation with the CSU Chancellor?s Office or SDSU?s Enrollment
Management Advisory Council (EMAC) prior to eliminating the local
guarantee. ?The only mention of the local guarantee that we see in the
records occurs after President Weber announced he was eliminating it on
September 21, 2009,? stated Leo Carrillo, the lead organizer for the
Education Consortium. ?It?s hard to believe there was no plan and no
consultation, and even harder to believe there are no records of them.?

?CSU
policy requires the university to form a long-range plan that, among
other things, addresses service to the local area. It also requires the
university to consult with both the Chancellor?s Office and with EMAC
before it changes the admissions rules abruptly. Otherwise, SDSU must
give the public 12 months notice,? said Dr. Isidro Ortiz, who was
instrumental in negotiating the 2002 CSU policy and served on the EMAC
for several years. Now Vice Chair of the Education Consortium, Dr.
Ortiz added, ?We, like the San Diego school board and many others
throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties, are very concerned that
SDSU changed the rules of the game without consulting the appropriate
people and without giving high school seniors adequate time to
prepare.? 

Because SDSU appears to have unlawfully withheld
documents, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties has sent a
demand letter asking for the full disclosure of documents. ?Access to
information is a fundamental right,? stated David Blair-Loy, the legal
director for the ACLU. ?It is especially important on an issue such as
the elimination of the local guarantee, which has a significant impact
on the community.?


Jose Madera 
Chair
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztl?n 
mechasdsu at gmail.com
www.mechasdsu.org
'We are all activist but it is when we act together do we become revolutionaries"






      
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From carriedenisechristie at yahoo.com  Sun Dec 20 17:10:39 2009
From: carriedenisechristie at yahoo.com (carrie christie)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:10:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Educationforall] Please Add Me to Your Mailing List
Message-ID: <861967.21998.qm@web57203.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hi,
Thanks for sending the add. 
?
In Solidarity,
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Mon Dec 21 18:13:32 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:13:32 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] FW: [SouthernCaliCoalition] California Senate
	Budget Document
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:45:23 -0800
From: dallijq at yahoo.com
Subject: [SouthernCaliCoalition] California Senate Budget Document
To: southerncalicoalition at googlegroups.com






Hello Everyone!
 
My name is Leslie Quintanilla and I am part of the UCSD Coalition for Educational Justice. I want to forward this helpful condensed document on the state budget process this spring:
 
http://www.sen.ca.gov/budget/BWORKINGS.PDF

This is where the next big fight is- we could face even deeper cuts to higher education or we could see some funding restored.
 
I hope UCSD will be involved in the next regional meetings with y'all soon!
 
Peace,
Leslie
 
Please feel free to add us to your list-serv: coalitionforeducationaljustice at gmail.com

 		 	   		  
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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Mon Dec 21 18:45:41 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:45:41 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] AGENDA and ACTION Proposal
In-Reply-To: <49505.69.230.17.165.1261335298.squirrel@dssmail.ucsd.edu>
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Hello EFA,

The movement fighting the budget cuts takes political action to reform
the undemocratic 2/3 legislative vote requirement in the CA budget and
tax process!  1,000,000 signatures are required by April 15th, absolutely doable.  Attached you'll find a document regarding the proposal and below is a link to an article discussing it.  I'd like to propose that we include a discussion related to how we can become involved in this action for our next meeting.  Any thoughts?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2009/12/19/IND51B4RBI.DTL

-Wayne
Outreach Committee



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From justinakers at cox.net  Wed Dec 23 17:17:23 2009
From: justinakers at cox.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Justin_Akers_Chac=F3n?=)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:17:23 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] State university fee hikes are a test many
	families can't pass
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State university fee hikes are a test many families can't pass
As California's promise of affordable higher education slips out of reach for many, some parents urge making a noise in Sacramento.
       
      Rafael Curiel, left, and Berenice Vite have been hard hit by Cal State Long Beach fee hikes for son Alonso Curiel, right. The father has also needed surgery and lost his job. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

     


By Carla Rivera 
December 21, 2009

Los Angeles Times

The budget crisis afflicting California State University could not have come at a worse time for Berenice Vite and Rafael Curiel, whose son Alonso is a sophomore at Cal State Long Beach. As the university was imposing a 32% student fee hike this year, Curiel underwent two shoulder surgeries and lost his job at a medical equipment firm.

The family has missed three house payments to scrape together tuition to continue educating their son, who does not qualify for financial aid. They are frustrated and worried, and they believe that their voices have not been heard as fast-moving decisions have been made to raise fees, cut enrollment and eliminate programs.

"All of these things are coming at the same time, and I'm really concerned," said Vite, 46, an instructional aide for the Los Angeles Unified School District. "I was raised learning about the importance of education, and I want my children to be educated. But we don't know if we're going to have a house or not."

Vite and Curiel echo the voices of families throughout the state who are being severely tested by the budget cuts at the Cal State, University of California and community college systems.

The fee increases, as well as mandatory staff and faculty furloughs, steep reductions in enrollment (40,000 otherwise eligible students will be turned away in the next two years at Cal State) and elimination of programs and majors have spurred student and faculty protests on many campuses.

But now there is an emerging movement of parents who are speaking out and assuming a bigger advocacy role.

Time for protest

Emma Hernandez, 56, took a page from her younger days supporting the United Farm Workers when she attended a recent rally in front of the governor's downtown Los Angeles office to protest the cuts. Her family is using the equity in its home to help pay tuition for son Tomas Diaz, 22, who attends Cal State Long Beach, and daughter Sonja Diaz, 24, who attends UCLA's graduate school of public policy.

Hernandez's youngest, Cerena Diaz, 17, an Alhambra High senior with a 4.4 GPA, wants to attend UC Berkeley. Hernandez, a retired program coordinator with the L.A. housing authority who is disabled, isn't sure if she and her husband will be able to afford the tuition.

"She tells me, 'Mom, I'm reading about the budget cuts and the enrollment cuts, and I'm not going to get in,' " said Hernandez. The former migrant worker said she and other parents should be role models for the younger generation. "I think it's so important that people get up there and start talking. I feel like the university and state leaders have let us down."

Average undergraduate fees at Cal State rose this school year to nearly $4,900, not counting books, transportation and housing costs, which can add $10,000 more. Basic undergraduate fees at UC next fall will be about $10,302 a year, with about $1,000 in additional campus-based charges; and room, board and books could add $16,000 more. Community colleges increased fees 30% from $20 to $26 per credit.

Critics of the fee hikes fear that more low-income students will be shut out, but middle-income families who don't qualify for need-based financial aid say they are being equally squeezed. Curiel and Vite are awaiting word on their application for a mortgage modification. They are reluctant to saddle Alonso, a pre-nursing major, with student loans. Meanwhile, the couple are waiting to find out if they can make installment payments for spring fees. A payment is due this week. 

Bob Combs, president of the parent advisory council at Cal State Chico, is organizing a campaign to contact state lawmakers. 

"We elect these officials, we donate money and we are the voice of our children," said Combs, a real estate agent. "If one of us is calling an Assembly member or Congress person, we're certainly much stronger if 10 of us are calling."

Looking out of state

Combs' son is a junior at Chico. But with that campus and others tightening acceptance criteria, he fears that his daughter, a high school senior with a 3.2 GPA, will not be admitted.

The family is considering out-of-state schools, including the University of Nevada, Reno, which offers to residents of California and other Western states a tuition discount that compares favorably to Cal State fees.

"The reason California's public higher education system has been so successful is that it provided a good education for a reasonable price, but that is changing," said Combs.

Steve Maples, director of admissions at the University of Nevada, Reno, said increasing numbers of California students are taking advantage of his school's tuition break; 200 enrolled in the fall and that number is likely is to increase with the budget crisis.

"It's certainly an unfortunate situation in California," said Maples. "I hate to use the word 'benefit,' but if it leads more qualified students our way, it will be something that helps our university."

That is the kind of news that Ken Stone dreads hearing. President of the Cal State University Alumni Council and father of three Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students, Stone has been working to create a new alumni website and Facebook group to help alumni, parents and students share information.

"There are things we can do at a grass-roots level, like talking with friends and neighbors about the threat to higher education, and we want to make sure we can talk from a knowledgeable base," said Stone, who is vice president and director of sales and marketing for a national architectural and engineering firm.

His biggest concern is the rollback of access to the university. Both he and his wife, Jeanne, who teaches at UC Irvine, are Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduates.

"Tens of thousands of students who want to get an education and contribute to the California economy are being told no," said Stone. "If they go to school in another state, ultimately that's where they're going to end up entering the workforce. All Californians should find that unacceptable."

Thrown off course

Pamela Anderson is heartbroken by the distress the budget cuts are inflicting on her daughters. Erica, 22, a psychology major at Fresno State, was due to graduate in May -- until three mandatory classes were cut.

"She is devastated that she will have to spend another year in school," said Anderson, a member of the campus parent group. Daughter Leslie, 20, a community college student, wants to transfer to San Francisco State or San Diego State, two Cal State campuses that will be exceptionally hard to get into. 

Meanwhile, Anderson's income as a senior computer analyst for Fresno County Superior Court disqualifies the family from financial aid, so she is struggling to pay not only tuition but an estimated $1,500 to $2,000 for books for next semester alone.

"It is putting the whole family through pain," she said. 

Some parents are not only protesting but also bolstering fundraising efforts and giving from their own pockets to help hard-hit campuses. 

Officials in the UC system are appealing to parents and alumni to make donations and lobby the governor and state lawmakers.

Howard and Jill Singer have opened their checkbook to support the career services office and programs serving disabled and foster students at San Diego State. Singer, 59, an executive at IBM who lives in Laguna Hills, also got his company to provide a matching grant for computer equipment.

The foster program is dear to them, he said, because the couple's foster son, Joel, 17, a high school senior, wants to enroll there. The Singers are incensed by cost-cutting measures on campuses, such as staff and faculty furloughs that mean less classroom time for daughter Jaclyn, 20, a journalism major. 

They spoke at a recent campus rally about the issue.

"Our students aren't just competing against other students in the community but from all over the world," Howard Singer said. "Do you think in other states and countries students are only getting 80% of an education? I don't think parents realize yet the impact these budget cuts are going to have on their children. Many parents can't open up their wallets, but they can bombard the governor and legislators."

carla.rivera at latimes.com


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From wscherer420 at hotmail.com  Fri Dec 25 06:36:01 2009
From: wscherer420 at hotmail.com (Wayne Scherer)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:36:01 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] EDUCATIONAL INFO:  Free Speech Toolkit
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Hello EFA,

Below is a link to a Free Speech Toolkit provided by the Center for Campus Free Speech (www.campusspeech.org).  I found it located on the democratizingeducation.org website.  You'll also find it attached to this email for your convenience.  The statement on the website regarding the toolkit is as follows: The Free Speech Organizing Toolkit is designed to provide campus
leaders and free speech supporters with the tools to work with higher
education leaders to remove impediments to a marketplace of ideas on
their campus.

Most of us have a limited understanding of our rights to freedom of speech.  Especially in the wake of the changes occurring since the events of 9/11.  Institutions and authorities often maintain vague policies regarding the rights of free speech for public locations, and public educational institutions for that matter which often maintain "free speech" zones.  This provides essential insight into the definitions of speech and our constitutional and lawful rights regarding it, both in a practical and relevant matter as it relates to education.  As we engage in rallies, protests, marches, and actions we must be properly prepared for the responses from those which we are confronting.  

"This toolkit is not intended as an exhaustive review of First Amendment law or every type of potentially
unconstitutional campus policy. Instead, it is a toolkit intended to provide members of the campus community
with a basic review of the types of policies that most often restrict student speech on campus and the tools to
work with campus leaders to remove those impediments within their campus or university system?s process.
While certainly, there have been and will continue to be a limited number of cases where students have no
choice but to go to the legal system, it is often faster, easier and builds more long term support for an open
campus environment to instead convince decision-makers to remove impediments to free speech on their
own."

http://www.democracysquare.org/files_public/CCFS-Free-Speech-Toolkit.pdf

In Solidarity,

-Wayne S.
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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Tue Dec 29 16:19:29 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:19:29 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] Looking for the K-12 and Labor committee lists.
Message-ID: <SNT120-W25C9E015200DF3D0C0C47DA17A0@phx.gbl>


Hi All,

 

A few of us are curious to know who kept the committee lists, Labor and K-12. If you kept any of these two lists, I suggest now is a good time to start a dialogues amongst those who signed up and moving forward towards outreach for the Summit on the 23rd and March 4th. I know we don't have a location for the Summit thus far, but hopefully we can have one down by this weekend. I would also like to suggest that if you do have the lists, please identify yourself over the listserv so that other organizations such as Joint Forces can work with you/us. Thank You and your attention to this request is much appreciated.

 

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From marcosresiste at hotmail.com  Tue Dec 29 16:46:44 2009
From: marcosresiste at hotmail.com (Marcos Perez)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:46:44 -0700
Subject: [Educationforall] proposed agenda for EFA meeting sunday 1/3 Balboa
	Park
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Hi All,

 

The following is the proposed agenda for the Education For All meeting this Sunday January 3rd. The meeting will be held at Balboa Park Presidents Way and Park Blvd at 1pm (assuming it will not be raining) out in the grassy area. Please feel free to bring your lawn chairs/folding chairs, or blankets to sit on.

 

1. Introductions

 

2. Educational/ Political discussion (article will be sent out over list-serv soon, please keep eyes out for an article about the campus occupations, please read and be ready to discuss)

 

3. Coordinating Committee proposal: establishing student leadership, democratically electing a Coordinating Committee- 1) composed of 3 students  2)solicit agenda items/set agenda 3) Maintain club status and attend mandatory campus meetings 4) Follow up with action items

 

4. Brief update from BEAT and FU protest on 1/4 and beyond

 

5. Report backs- Labor/ K-12/ messaging committees...

 

6. Continue organizing January 23rd Summit, meeting structure, formulate agenda.

 

7. Clarification of other undemocratic planned event on March 4th.

 

8. Announcements

 

 
 		 	   		  
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From jmiller at sdccd.edu  Tue Dec 29 17:37:22 2009
From: jmiller at sdccd.edu (Jim Miller)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:37:22 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] Looking for the K-12 and Labor committee
	lists.
References: <SNT120-W25C9E015200DF3D0C0C47DA17A0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <7B246165CF838B41BFEC58C47A665997FB8E9F@CIX.sdccd.loc>

Hi All, 
As I mentioned in a previous email that was never posted to the list, I can
help with labor and contacts.  I sit in on the E Board of the SD-Imperial
Counties Labor Council and serve as a delegate to the Labor Council and have
a good working relationship with the president of SDEA (K-12).  I'm also a
member of the Fight for California's Future task force for CFT at the
statewide level where folks have been discussing how we might coordinate with
student actions statewide.  Just let me know if you need any help.  In
solidarity, Jim Miller, AFT Political Action VP/Community Outreach


-----Original Message-----
From: educationforall-bounces at lists.aktivix.org on behalf of Marcos Perez
Sent: Tue 12/29/2009 8:19 AM
To: educationforall at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [Educationforall] Looking for the K-12 and Labor committee lists.
 

Hi All,

 

A few of us are curious to know who kept the committee lists, Labor and K-12.
If you kept any of these two lists, I suggest now is a good time to start a
dialogues amongst those who signed up and moving forward towards outreach for
the Summit on the 23rd and March 4th. I know we don't have a location for the
Summit thus far, but hopefully we can have one down by this weekend. I would
also like to suggest that if you do have the lists, please identify yourself
over the listserv so that other organizations such as Joint Forces can work
with you/us. Thank You and your attention to this request is much
appreciated.

 

-Marcos
 		 	   		  
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From justinakers at cox.net  Wed Dec 30 18:48:33 2009
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:48:33 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] New California Survey
Message-ID: <2C8564B1E26941B0A66DFF2F8B4EAF28@Justinscomputer>

New survey shows (Highlighted):
Majority of californians favors change in 2/3rds rule for budget
Shwarzenegger and Legislarture's approval rating drop further 

http://www.ppic.org/main/pressrelease.asp?i=993
PRESS RELEASE
Public Policy Institute of california

      Whitman Leading, But Most GOP Voters Undecided

      Brown Tops Republicans in Potential Matchups-But Falls Short of Majority


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      SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2009-Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman leads the field among likely voters in the GOP gubernatorial primary with 32 percent support, compared to 12 percent for former Congressman Tom Campbell and 8 percent for state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. But the highest percentage of likely GOP voters-44 percent-is undecided, according to a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with funding from The James Irvine Foundation.

      In hypothetical head-to-head matchups for the November general election, the prospective Democratic candidate and current state Attorney General Jerry Brown bests all three Republicans. But he does so with less than majority support.

      Six months before the gubernatorial primary, the four major party candidates expected to be on the ballot are attracting little enthusiasm or attention among Californians likely to vote. Only 10 percent of likely voters are very closely following news about the candidates, and 33 percent are fairly closely following the news (36% not too closely, 20% not at all closely). Just 32 percent of likely voters are satisfied with their choices of candidates in the primary, and 42 percent are not (26% don't know). Democrats are more likely to express satisfaction (38%) than independents (29%) or Republicans (25%). But across parties and ideological groups, more likely voters are unsatisfied with their choices than satisfied.

      "Voters have more immediate concerns than who is going to be the next governor," says Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO. "Despite all the advertising in this early stage of the campaign, Republican primary voters are more likely to say they are undecided than to favor one of the three GOP candidates. At the same time, the Democrats' likely candidate falls short of majority support when matched up against the Republican contenders."

      Republicans Fail To Make Big Impression, and Brown Makes a Mixed One

      At least half of likely voters across parties and demographic groups don't know enough about Whitman to have an opinion about her or haven't heard of her. Her highest favorability ratings are among Republicans, independents, and conservatives (28% of each) and men (27%). Sixty-eight percent of women are unable to give an opinion of Whitman-the only woman in the race-compared to 51 percent of men. Seventy percent of likely voters have no opinion of Campbell. His highest ratings are among Republicans (21%), San Francisco Bay Area likely voters (24%), men (20%), those with household incomes of at least $80,000 (20%), and renters (21%). Seventy-three percent of likely voters have no opinion of Poizner, who has no more than a 12 percent favorability rating in any group.

      Opinion is evenly divided on Brown (35% favorable, 36% unfavorable). A majority of Democratic likely voters (52%) have a favorable opinion of him, a majority of Republicans (59%) have an unfavorable one, and independents lean toward unfavorable (39% unfavorable, 34% favorable). A sizeable 69 percent of likely voters under age 35 cannot give an opinion of the former two-term governor.

      In potential November matchups, Brown leads Whitman by 6 points (43% to 37%), Campbell by 12 (46% to 34%), and Poizner by 16 (47% to 31%) among likely voters. Partisan preferences are key in these leads. Independent likely voters are divided in a race between Whitman (37%) and Brown (36%), and they support Brown over Campbell (40% to 25%) and Poizner (42% to 23%). Among female likely voters, Brown has a 12-point lead over Whitman, a 21-point lead over Campbell, and a 22-point lead over Poizner.

      More Voters Prefer Candidates To Raise Money Than Spend Their Own

      What qualities do likely voters value in a candidate for statewide office? Half (49%) view a candidate more positively for using mostly money from supporters in a campaign, and 39 percent hold a more positive view of a candidate who uses his or her own money. Pluralities of Republicans (55%), independents (50%), and Democrats (46%) view a candidate who uses supporters' money more positively.

      California's likely voters are evenly split on whether it's more important for a candidate to have experience in elected office (43%) or running a business (43%). The fault lines are ideological and political, with Democrats (60%) and liberals (63%) valuing experience in office, and Republicans (61%) and conservatives (61%) valuing experience in business.

      Two-thirds Vote on Budget, Gay Marriage Are Most Important Issues

      At a time when many initiatives are circulating to qualify for the 2010 ballots, the survey asked likely voters to assess the importance of a half-dozen issues that may be up for a vote. Which issues are viewed as very important-either because they are favored or opposed?

        a.. Lowering the vote requirement for the legislature to pass a state budget: 54 percent
        b.. Allowing same-sex couples to marry in California: 51 percent
        c.. Allowing voters to select any candidate, regardless of party, in state primaries: 47 percent
        d.. Legalizing marijuana in California: 38 percent
        e.. Allowing voters to call a constitutional convention in California: 35 percent
        f.. Allowing public funding of statewide campaigns in California: 32 percent
      Given the importance likely voters place on the issue of lowering the legislative threshold to pass a state budget, it's not surprising that 88 percent of them call the budget situation a big problem. When asked how they would prefer the state to deal with a multibillion-dollar gap between revenues and spending, 44 percent say mostly through spending cuts, while 39 percent would prefer a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. Since January, the preference for dealing with the budget gap mainly through cuts has increased 12 points (32%) among likely voters and for the mixed approach has declined 9 points (48%).

      In the aftermath of the legislature's passage of a package of bills designed to address the state's water crisis, the survey asked about the $11.1 billion water bond measure that is part of the package and is slated to be on the November ballot. How important is it that voters pass the measure? Most likely voters say it is very important (43%) or somewhat important (31%).

      61% Approve of Obama-Fewer Back Economic, Health Care, Afghan Plans

      Turning to Californians' assessments of federal leaders and issues, most Californians (61%) approve of the way President Obama is handling his job-similar to their views in September (63%) and more approving than adults nationwide, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll (50% approve, 39% disapprove). Californians are much more approving of Obama's performance than they are of Congress. They give Congress a 38 percent approval rating, also similar to September (39%). About half (51%) approve of the job their own member of the U.S. House of Representatives is doing, a 5-point drop from September (56%).

      But California residents are less satisfied with Obama's handling of the economy. Only 31 percent say his economic policies have made economic conditions better. By comparison, 42 percent say his policies have made no difference and 21 percent say they've made economic conditions worse. Californians are split over whether the federal government's response to the financial crisis will help the state, with 46 percent saying it will and the same percentage saying it will not. And although a majority of California residents were satisfied with the first federal stimulus package, they are less willing to support more spending to stimulate the economy: just 39 percent would support it, and 53 percent would oppose it.

      Half of Californians support (52% vs. 39% oppose) proposed changes to the health care system-a top domestic priority for Obama- given what they know about the legislation. Their views have changed little since September (51% support, 38% oppose). Californians' support declines sharply with age and is lowest among those 65 and older (42%). Californians are more supportive (61% vs. 33% oppose) of creating a government health insurance plan to compete with private insurers, as they were in September (62% support, 33% oppose).

      Californians take a pessimistic view of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan. Just 6 percent say things are going very well, with 26 percent saying they are going fairly well and the majority saying things are going not too well (32%) or not at all well (29%). A plurality (44%) say U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be decreased, while just 33 percent say they should be increased.

      In the wake of Obama's December 1 speech announcing an increase in U.S. troops and setting a timetable for withdrawal, Californians are divided on his plan: 49 percent favor it and 45 percent are opposed. The results are similar to Americans nationwide in a USA Today/Gallup poll (51% favor, 40% oppose). Across parties, a majority of Democrats (55%) favor the president's plan, Republicans (54%) oppose it, and independents are split (46% favor, 46% oppose).

      More Key Findings

        a.. Jobs, economy dwarf other issues -page 13
        As it has since January 2008, jobs and the economy top the list of Californians' concerns, with 61 percent calling it the most important issue facing the state in an open-ended question. The state budget, deficit, and taxes come in a distant second (13%), and water (2%) is further down the list.
        b.. Governor, legislature approval ratings at record lows -page 15
        Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's approval rating of 27 percent sinks to a new low among all adults. It's been at 40 percent or below since August 2008. The legislature's approval rating is lower still and matches its record of 17 percent, first recorded in July 2009.
        c.. For Californians, the recession is still up close and personal -pages 14, 22, and 23
        Reports about the end of the recession are unconvincing to most Californians: 91 percent say the state is in a recession and 60 percent say it is a serious one. Half of the state's residents are very (34%) or somewhat (16%) concerned that they or someone in their family will lose a job in the next year, and another 11 percent volunteer that their family has already experienced job loss. And 65 percent of residents say they are very (45%) or somewhat (20%) concerned that they will not have enough money to pay the rent or mortgage. Nevertheless, 53 percent expect their financial situation to improve a lot (6%) or some (47%) over the next year.
      ABOUT THE SURVEY

      The PPIC Statewide Survey has provided policymakers, the media, and the general public with objective information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents since 1998. This survey is part of a series that examines the social, economic, and political trends that influence public policy preferences and ballot choices. It is supported with funding from The James Irvine Foundation. Findings are based on a telephone survey of 2,004 California adult residents interviewed on landlines and cell phones from December 1-8, 2009. Interviews were conducted in English or Spanish, according to respondents' preferences. The sampling error is ?2 percent for all adults, ?3 percent for the 963 likely voters, and ?5 percent for the 352 Republican primary likely voters. For more information on methodology, see page 25.

      Mark Baldassare is president and CEO of PPIC, where he holds the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Public Policy. He is founder of the PPIC Statewide Survey, which he has directed since 1998.

      PPIC is dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research on major economic, social, and political issues. The institute was established in 1994 with an endowment from William R. Hewlett. As a private operating foundation, PPIC does not take or support positions on any ballot measure or on any local, state, or federal legislation, nor does it endorse, support, or oppose any political parties or candidates for public office.
     
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From: jmiller at sdccd.edu (Jim Miller)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:48:00 -0800
Subject: [Educationforall] CFT call to action
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Hi All,
Here is CFT's call to action with regard to our spring Fight for California's
Future campaign.  Whether we do the "trek" mentioned in the call (which would
be after the 4th in late March) or other actions, supporting March 4th is
certainly on our agenda.  Hopefully, that will be successful and we can build
from there.  Let me know if any of you would be interested in joining this
effort after the 4th.  We will be making a decision about the trek proposal
on January 9th at the CFT E Board meeting in LA.  
In solidarity, Jim Miller, AFT Political Action VP/Community Outreach




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