Posts tagged California Teachers Association
Teachers Unions Back School Funding Measures, Governor Candidates in Midterms
November 2, 2026 // Locals from New York to California are focusing on statewide races, while national union targets Senate seats in battleground states.
Teachers unions back school funding measures, governor candidates in midterms
October 30, 2026 // As the American Federation of Teachers finishes an election tour in battleground areas, many local affiliates’ biggest bets are on state ballots, including school funding measures and governor’s races. Both the AFT and the National Education Association have homed in on specific states for the midterms. The NEA and its state affiliate, the California Teachers Association, contributed a total of nearly $45 million to campaign for Proposition 3, a measure that would make a higher income tax rate for top earners permanent. The surcharge, which has funded billions for schools since 2012, would otherwise expire in 2031.
Matt Welch: L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
October 29, 2026 // Faced with LAUSD's "high risk" of insolvency due to plummeting enrollment and increased hiring, the union is railing against a "fake independent analysis" and pushing for two separate wealth taxes.
California’s billionaire tax divides unions against their leaders
October 27, 2026 // Despite opposition to Prop. 40 from Gov. Gavin Newsom and several major labor groups, teachers in San Francisco and Los Angeles are backing the tax.
Educators union sues California, alleging billions missing from public school funding
September 16, 2026 // Facing their own statewide budget deficits, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators "deliberately underfunded the schools" by $1.9 billion in 2024-25 and by $3.9 billion in 2025-26, the California Teachers Association said in a suit in Sacramento County Superior Court. It was filed against Newsom's finance director, Joe Stephenshaw, and several defendants who were unnamed but clearly included the governor.
CTA-backed group vies to force election to unionize Clovis educators
September 9, 2026 // The Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), which is backed by the California Teachers Association, last week filed an intervention petition with the state labor board in hopes of forcing an election among Clovis Unified School District educators. The unaffiliated Independent Clovis Unified Educators, or ICUE, filed its petition in July to become the exclusive representative for full-time teachers in the district, which is California’s largest without a teachers union. ACE has challenged ICUE’s petition, calling into question who, among educators, might be represented and eligible to vote, according to The Fresno Bee, which first reported the development.
Opinion: California’s unions have built a $1B taxpayer-funded machine
August 31, 2026 // One group, more than any other, has cashed in on this arrangement: California’s public-sector unions. For them, higher taxes are good business. More taxes means more state workers, which means more union members, more dues, and more power for union bosses. The union bosses, in turn, keep the dollars flowing, agitating for more tax hikes, more spending, and more state workers. How powerful are California’s public-sector unions? In the calendar or fiscal year ending in 2024, 10 of the largest California-based unions with public-sector members collectively raked in more than $1 billion in dues and fees.
Opinion: Gavin Newsom’s mind-boggling record of giveaways to unions
August 25, 2026 // Richer government contracts and expanded public employee benefits don’t come from nowhere. They land on taxpayers — the same taxpayers already staring down the nation’s highest gas prices, some of the steepest home insurance increases in the country and a cost of living that keeps pushing people out of the state entirely.
Teacher unions dedicate money to political activism, lobbying
August 18, 2026 // In 2025, the NEA spent a total of $448,171,192, according to Union Facts, a nonprofit that focuses on transparency and accountability. AFT spent a total of $278,261,430. The NEA spent more than $51 million on political activities and lobbying in 2025, and the AFT spent more than $41 million, according to Union Facts. In comparison, the national average salary for a public school teacher is $74,000, according to the NEA.
Clovis Unified’s ASL interpreters reach first union deal, despite some pay concerns
August 18, 2026 // The contract comes at a time when the Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), which is backed by the California Teachers Association and helped to organize interpreters’ unionization, is vying to be the exclusive representative of Clovis Unified’s teachers. The district is closer than ever to ending its 66-year “union-free” history as the other major group, Independent Clovis Unified Educators (ICUE), gathered enough signatures and filed a union petition with the state in July.