CFA invites faculty members, staff and students to join Frances
Fox Piven, Barbara Ehrenreich and student activists for a
national teach-in on the jobs crisis and student activists’ fight
for worker’s rights, equal access to education, fair taxation,
and economic and social justice.
A webcast screening of this National Teach-In dubbed "Students
Rising for Jobs and Economic Justice" will be 7–8:30 pm EDT. It
will be web-streamed live from the University of California,
Washington Center
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark
aid package for struggling states that includes $10 billion in
education jobs funding. The U.S. Department of Education
estimates it save 161,000 jobs in public schools across the
country.
The National Education Association (NEA) urges faculty to contact
their House Representative to implore them to support including
education jobs funding for K-12 and Higher Education in the
emergency supplemental appropriations (funding) bill.
If higher education jobs are included in the package, this bill
could fund over 50,000 jobs in higher education – jobs that are
critical for fulfilling the missions of our colleges and
universities.
Tell Congress that this is an emergency -- the future of public
education is at stake!
The National Education Association (NEA) needs your help to get
the funding necessary to save educators’ jobs and prevent
students from losing good teachers and education support
professionals.
To help, go to NEA’s new Education Votes website to share your
story about what is happening in higher to education jobs even as
the economy slowly begins to recover from the Great Recession.
Last week, CFA joined in national efforts to secure increase
federal funding for California to help cope with the state’s
massive budget deficit.
CFA’s joined with both national and local allies including SEIU
International, NEA and SEIU 1000 (California State Workers union)
in an effort to secure federal funding through three bills that
will save and create jobs and send much-needed fiscal relief to
state and local governments.
