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Unions Seeking to Raise Your Taxes – by 40 Billion Dollars!

• Union Marchers Demand 40 Billion in Tax Increases!
• OC Register Condemns Unions' Demands for Tax Increases!
• CUSD Reform Trustees Reject Union’s Unsustainable Demands!
• Voters Must
SAY NO to the union’s selfish political agenda!

WARNING!

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in the middle of the nation’s worst economic crisis since the great depression, with the State of California buckling under the weight of unprecedented budget deficits that have crippled the ability of local cities and school districts to provide basic services to their constituents, 2,200 Teachers Union members in Capistrano Unified abandoned their students and walked out on strike…

NOW, the Teachers Union and other public employee unions are marching on Sacramento demanding that legislators increase your taxes!

Union Marchers Demand 40 Billion in Tax Increases!
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The public employee-union backed marchers arrived at the Capitol this week after 48 days on the road from Bakersfield, and Thursday presented lawmakers with their
state budget recommendations -- $40 billion in tax increases.

READ the Sacramento Bee News Report






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Class Size: How Large Is Too Large? An Essay By the CUSD Recall Committee

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With tough economic times and continuous cuts to school district budgets, the current debate in many school districts is how to keep school districts solvent. Between 80 percent and 88 percent of the total local school district's budget pays for salaries and benefits. When cutting costs, the choice becomes reduction in employee compensation or increase in class size and loss of programs to students.

Once class sizes are increased and programs are lost, they don't come back. How many students in a classroom are too many students: 36, 40, 50 or 100?

The line in the sand has been drawn and you MUST decide which side you will stand on. Your kids, our kids, want you to stand on their side.

The choice is yours… Read More...
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New Report Shows California Teachers Are Highest-Paid in the Nation...Yet the Teachers Union Wants Billions More.

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Even with average teacher salaries higher than all 49 other states (25% above the national average), California's pubic schools still perform on average near the bottom (49th nationally). The CTA's low per-pupil spending argument is a flimsy excuse based on an arcane formula and ignores the negative impact higher teacher salaries have on classrooms. The CTA's "solution"? Ignore the state's greatest-ever budget crisis and ask already-overtaxed and increasingly-unemployed voters to approve ballot measure 1B on the May 19 ballot to drain $9.3 billion more out of taxpayers' pockets to pour into teachers' wallets. Now that's chutzpah!

Click here to read the OC Register editorial.
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