Jobs Budget Plan critical to schools, state teacher group says
By Claudia Meléndez Salinas/Monterey County Herald
Cuts to education will decimate California schools unless the Legislature adopts the "Jobs Budget Plan," members of the California Teachers Association said Wednesday. At a rally at Asilomar, the site of a weeklong teacher training workshop, union members deplored recent cuts to schools they say ultimately affect children and urged the Legislature to approve the so-called California Jobs Budget, a proposal by Democratic members of the Assembly. "Over the last two years, we lost over 100" teachers, said Dennis Wright, president of the Monterey Bay Teachers Association. (more...)