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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

They won't get any sympathy from me.  The NEA came in about 15 years ago, or 
so, and got the CTA going and got a bunch of changes made to K-12.  "Back in 
the day," as the kidlets phrase, when I was doing budgets, fiscal 
administration and federal grants AND before everything went to block grants 
which really screwed things up royally, admin was only allowed 7% of all the 
various funds they pulled in and 15% of state mandated money.  Now with Prop 
98 and a few other cleaver things pushed through by CTA, they effectively 
cut off their noses to spite their faces and add in NCLB and you have 
everything going to hell in a hand basket!

And CTA is no different than the admin folks.  In fact, the dream of all 
members of CTA is to "cross over" to admin.  The vast majority of them 
aren't the least interested in teaching, they are only interested in that 
guaranteed pay check and outrageous benefits with little or no fear of 
having to prove they can do the job!

Let them fight it out.  Sooner or later they'll bankrupt the whole business 
and someone with some common sense will get to kick them all to the curb and 
put something realistic in place!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


> The syndicate that represents California community college
> administrators is trying to eliminate the law that forces them to spend
> 50% of the money on actual classes (as a taxpayer, I'm wondering, 'Gee,
> shouldn't that be the 70%, or the 80%, law?'). That would free up the
> money to spend on themselves. Here's the propaganda page from the
> teachers' union exposing this diabolical plot (forgive both the sentence
> fragment and the bellicose tone):
>
>
> "ACCA’s highest priority is elimination of the 50% law. If
> administrators have their way it won’t just be weakened. It will be
> gone. To this we have CTA sponsored legislation to strengthen the 50%
> law. And it’s CTA’s highest priority - Tier 1.
> Let the battle begin! "
>
>
> Click on Association News then on President's Monthly Message at
>
> http://www.ccafca.org/
>
> Bill
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