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Hundreds of CA educators are sending strong solidarity to Chicago teachers and staff! ✊🏼
@SEIU73
@CTULocal1
We are behind you every step of the way!
#ShutItDown
#PutItInWriting
#RedForEd
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Never underestimate a public school teacher.
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How do teachers like their coffee? Strong and union brewed, of course! Sending love and solidarity to Starbucks workers in
#SantaCruz
fighting for their union! United PCS educators came out in support
@sbworkersunited
today.
#1u
#UnionStrong
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History made! Governor
@GavinNewsom
signs
#SB126
into law. Charter schools will finally be held to the same standards of transparency and accountability as public schools. Victory for students, parents, and educators! ✍️☑️
#KidsNotProfits
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California cannot reopen schools unless they are safe.
We write on behalf of the 310,000 members of
#WeAreCTA
and the more than 9 million students we serve regarding the pending reopening of schools and colleges throughout the state. Read full letter:
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Teachers are everything! ✨🤩😭
.
@CBSSunday
surprised Lizzo with her high school band director, who encouraged her to apply herself when she was learning to play the flute — and her reaction was priceless: “Wow, I did it, didn't I?”
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Thank you for supporting LA educators
@BernieSanders
!
I stand in solidarity w/
@UTLAnow
teachers in their fight for fair pay, smaller classroom sizes & stipends for materials and supplies. Teaching is one of the most valuable and indispensable professions. We need to treat educators with respect and dignity.
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Texas’s own
@BetoORourke
: “my kids go to dual language public schools in El Paso & they’re getting an absolutely terrific public education. I want to dramatically increase funding paying the full freight for IDEA...
#campaign2020
#EducatorsVote
#WeAreCTA
#StrongPublicSchools
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BREAKING: The 3,000 brave educators of
@OaklandEA
will go on strike Thursday, Feb. 21 to stand and fight for the quality public schools that Oakland students deserve. ✊💛🌳💚
#Unite4OaklandKids
#WeAreOEA
#WeAreCTA
#RedForEd
🍎
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Reminder: Arming educators or other school employees with guns to prevent mass shootings does nothing to protect students. Bringing more guns into schools is a misguided and dangerously flawed idea. -- CTA President
@EricHeins
#ArmMeWIth
AGAIN: A California teacher (also a reserve police officer) unintentionally fired a gun while lecturing on public safety. No, really...
“One student suffered an injury to his neck from either bullet fragments or debris falling from the ceiling...”
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Thank you for your support of educators,
@kathygriffin
!! 🍎💪
My sister was a teacher and I’m always down to help anyone who wants to be an educator!
An honor and a pleasure!
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As a union of 310,000 educators across California, we have an obligation to act. This is not a time for us to look away. We must grapple with the fact that our schools, our practices, policies and even our own union, are shaped by inequities, bias and institutional racism.
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It's OFFICIAL:
@TonyThurmond
is California's next Superintendent of Public Instruction!! Thanks to the power of public school educators and
#TeamTony
, Tony will be serving our 6 million students of California and supporting our public schools! 🎉🍏
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Gov.
@GavinNewsom
Joins Educators in Prioritizing Safe Reopening of California Schools in New Guidance
#OnlyWhenItsSafe
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The power of teachers. ♥️
@mjacobs324
Ms. Jacobs! Is that you?! 😭
Yes, I do remember the poems we recited in second grade! You prepared me perfectly for this moment.
Thank you for teaching me, encouraging my growth, and believing in me as a child 💜
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LA educators are striking today for their students and the education profession.
@EricHeins
and the 325,000 members of CTA know fighting for change is not easy. We support you! ✊
Add your message of solidarity 👉
#RedforEd
#UTLAStrong
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CTA is
#RedForEd
today in solidarity with Chicago educators and staff, on strike for the schools and learning conditions their students deserve.
#CTUSEIUstrike
💪✊
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We're so proud of the THOUSANDS of educators who never gave up on their students & the public ed they deserve. Thanks to the millions of parents, families, community & supporters who have been there for UTLA all of the way. 👏👏👏
👉Follow
@UTLAnow
for the latest!
#UTLAStrong
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#UTLAStrong
Strike Day 3 stats:
⚡️ 30,000+
@UTLAnow
members on picket lines across LA
⚡️12,000+ parents & community members joined
⚡️ Tens of thousands of members, parents, students flooded streets & rallied
⚡️100% of
@LASchools
have teachers on strike
📷:
@jfrankov
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With
#Omicron
surging &
#COVID
cases at record highs, we MUST bring back COVID paid sick leave for educators who've been exposed. We can't put them in the position of going w/o pay or threatening the health of colleagues, students, & communities.
#PaidSickDaysNOW
#WeAreCTA
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BREAKING:
#ForestvilleTeachers
win! 👏👏
After 4 sweltering days standing together on the picket line, FTA won the contract they demanded—one that will help attract and retain the qualified teachers Forestville students deserve.
#RedForEd
✊🍎
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Why do teachers care so much about
#ClassSize
? Here's why.
📽️:
@NicholasFerroni
#ClassSizeMatters
#UTLAStrong
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#UTLAStrong
Strike Day 1 in the books! 🍎💪
What was the most inspiring thing you witnessed today? 🤔
#ReplyTweet
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Collaboration counts!
#WeAreCTA
+ Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (the teachers' union
@SnteNacional
) is collaborating to help migrant children + youth based at the CA-Mexico border w/ educational + other needs. 👉♥️👈
#BridgesNotWalls
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THREAD: The
@LASchools
Board approved unanimously a historic
@UTLAnow
contract that prioritizes student needs. This reaffirms the effectiveness of the 6-day strike and the overwhelming support for LA educators. 👏👏
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📣 When we fight, we win! A HUGE congratulations to
@OaklandEA
educators, parents, students and community for reaching a Tentative Agreement, and coming together to fight tirelessly for the public education our students deserve!
#Unite4OaklandKids
#OaklandWins
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"We cannot reopen schools until we can ensure they are safe for our teachers, our students and our communities--no ifs, ands or buts about it.
California schools cannot open until it is safe."
@ETobyBoyd
#WeAreCTA
#InThisTogether
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Dear everyone,
Have you ever seen what a
#RedForEd
ocean looks like? (You're welcome.) ♥️
Love,
California
#WeAreCTA
#CTAinHouston
#NEARA19
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Day 2! 📣 We 💚💛 Oakland educators who are standing up for their students: more school counselors and nurses, smaller class sizes and a living wage. 👏👏
#Unite4OaklandKids
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The
#ScienceMarch
is Saturday! Can't make it to
@ScienceMarchDC
? Check out
@ScienceMarchSF
+
@march4sciencela
!
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Join
@OaklandEA
educators tomorrow to continue the fight for the soul of public education in Oakland!
Let's make those picket lines stronger, the rallies bigger and louder. Join together to fight for the schools Oakland students deserve! 💛✊💚
#Unite4OaklandKids
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It's official: 95% of
@OaklandEA
members have voted YES to authorize a strike.
#Unite4OaklandKids
#StrikeReady
✅ Smaller class size
✅ More student support
✅ A living wage
✅ Keep our neighborhood schools open
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Santa Cruz is a union town!
Soquel educators, the lowest paid in Santa Cruz County, picketed for fair wages this morning. Meanwhile, 2 Santa Cruz Starbucks locations are the 1st in CA voting to unionize.
Solidarity forever!
#UnionStrong
#WeAreCTA
#1u
@sbwuca
@SBWorkersUnited
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“Gov. Gavin Newsom has given school districts some reassurance they have been waiting for: They will be paid for days they shut down to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.”
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"Please, remember how important teachers are. Acknowledge the work they do every day. And for the love of God, 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦."
Thanks,
@quintabrunson
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👏👏
@UTLAnow
continues to prove true that “when we strike, we win: The
@LASchools
Board of Education called for a state study on the impacts of
#charters
and a moratorium on new charter schools until the study is complete.
#UTLAStrong
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Arminta Elementary had a special visitor today!
@GavinNewsom
stopped by to read his new book,
#BenAndEmmasBigHit
. We love this story about kids turning their differences into their superpower so much that we picked it as one of our
#CaliforniaReads
books.
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March is
#WomensHistoryMonth
! 👩🏽🏫🧕🏼👩🏾💼👩🏻🎨👩🏾⚕️👩🏾⚖️👩🏻🚒👩🏾🔬👩🏻🍳👩🏾🚀
Did you know that 73% of California teachers are women? When we honor the work of teachers, it is most often honoring the work of women! 💜
#WeAreCTA
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“Teachers do not feel it is safe to return to teaching in person and, in large majority, they are unwilling to do so at this time.” -
@SJTAPres
🧵
Yesterday we informed
@SanJoseUnified
that teachers feel it is unsafe to return to work and are unwilling to do so. Here’s the letter from
@SJTAPres
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Educators across the state are rising united to defend each other, their students and communities, issuing statements that they will not return to in-classroom teaching until conditions are safe enough to do so.
#WeAreCTA
#OpeningSchoolsSafely
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BREAKING: Moratorium on New
#CharterSchools
(
#SB756
) Clears Senate Education Committee! On behalf of California’s students, thank YOU for taking the time to call, email + engage on social media! It truly made a difference for your Senator on committee to hear from you.
#WeAreCTA
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"No one knows what our schools need now more than the people who are with students everyday -- and that's us!"
@DrBiden
, First Lady-Elect, Educator,
@NEAToday
member
#ForwardTogether
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Thanks to educators who took to Houston’s streets this afternoon to protest the inhumane practice of separating families and incarcerating & and criminalizing immigrant children and their families.
#CTAinHouston
#NEARA2019
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#ClassroomsNotCages
#EdJustice
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"We all know distance learning is not ideal. It’s not what any of us want to be doing. But let’s not stigmatize a generation of students with the words 'learning loss.' Learning is happening. Teaching is happening!"
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The 310,000 members of CTA are in
#solidarity
with
@UAW
members, who are on strike for fair pay and better working conditions. We call on
@GM
to negotiate a fair contract that respects UAW workers and honors the dignity of their work.
#UAWStrike
💪
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"This election's outcome is a victory for our students, public education and working families. Californians said no to compromising our values, no to shortchanging our students and their safety, and no to dismantling our public education system." - CTA President E. Toby Boyd
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CTA's VP
@themontano
reflects on being on the line in 1989 as a classroom teacher in East LA: "I was proud of my union then, but I have never been prouder of the educators in the city of LA!" 🍎✊
#UTLAStrong
#RedForEd
#WeAreLA
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We're not worried about billionaires leaving California, we're worried about teachers, janitors, healthcare staff and other essential workers leaving California. We need to invest in our schools, communities and infrastructures that allow for innovation to happen.
#AB1253
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👏👏👏 More investments:
⭐️ Increased Child Care and Preschool Slots
⭐️ Expanded Training, Trauma-Informed
⭐️ Full-day Kindergarten
⭐️ Job Protection to Increase Use of Paid Family Leave
#CABudget
#WeAreCTA
#CaliforniaForAll
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SAME.
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This
#LaborDay2018
, we honor our educators, who work *so* hard every day to give our students the education they deserve. Here's to YOU! 💪
#WeAreCTA
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This photo though!
90% of
@UTLAnow
chapters with more than 27,000 members rallied, picketed, chanted, on the first morning of this historic strike to take back
#publiceducation
. UTLA's rally and march downtown initial estimate is more than 60,000 people‼️ ☔️
#EducatorMagic
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"School closures is a civil rights issue. These closures are a tactic to create more opportunities for privatization on the back of communities of color. Billionaires do not teach our kids. We teach our kids."
#Unite4OaklandKids
👏👏
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A huge congratulations to California's own Vice President-Elect
@KamalaHarris
!!!
Our Senator Kamala Harris is America's first woman vice president, first Black woman vice president, first Asian American woman vice president!
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Mission: Elect a teacher to the White House.
Let’s go!! 🤩🍎
#HarrisWalz2024
We couldn't be more proud of our former member and Teacher Governor
@Tim_Walz
.
From the classroom to the state Capitol, he's impacted the lives of countless Minnesotans. We're excited to help him impact the lives of Americans in the White House.
#HarrisWalz2024
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To recap, Oakland educators are striking for:
✅ Smaller class sizes
✅ More student supports
✅ A living wage
✅ No school closures
RT your support! 💛✊💚
#Unite4OaklandKids
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CTA President
@ETobyBoyd
and Vice President
@teachergoldberg
are part of the crowd growing in front of LA City Hall as
@UTLAnow
and
@SEIULocal99
stand together, United for LA Schools, fighting for the future of our students!
#WeAreCTA
#United4LA
#UTLAStrong
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Wow: 70% of Oakland charter schools applied for and received nearly $19 million in forgivable Federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended for small businesses and nonprofits, despite having NO loss of state education funding. 🤯
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Our black students & educators experience schools, the police and this pandemic very differently than our white students & educators. Saying
#BlackLivesMatter
isn't enough: we need to actively show it in our work toward anti-racism on a personal, structural & institutional level.
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So awesome!! West Virginia educators show support and solidarity with
@UTLAnow
!
#StrikeReady
#RedForEd
💪
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In recognition of the extraordinary efforts of its educators, Alhambra Unified is canceling professional development activities tomorrow to give their employees the gift of time. Bravo to
@alhambrausd
, school board president Kenneth Tang and the entire board! 👏👏
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California educators send a message of strength and solidarity to our fellow educators in Oklahoma and Kentucky! 🗣 Educators, stay STRONG!! 💪
#OKwalk4kids
#KentuckyTeachers
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CTA President
@EricHeins
joins educators of
@OaklandEA
, parents and supporters on the picket line this morning: CTA and our 325,000 members are with you!
#Unite4OaklandKids
✊🍏
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Our members are passionate and know the importance of educators' voices!
#WeAreCTA
#VotePublicEd
🗳🇺🇸
this is incredible...a teacher noticed Democrat
@JanzforCongress
next to her in traffic...then...
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Thread: Our position has not changed. California cannot reopen schools unless they are safe. Our concern for the safety and welfare of students and staff has been heightened by the fact that school doors are opening, or preparing to open, across the state through small cohorts,
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"When students physically return to schools, it needs to be planned and deliberate, with public health at the forefront of all decision-making. Educators must be part of conversations that directly impact students."
- CTA President
@ETobyBoyd
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Been homeschooling a 6-year old and 8-year old for one hour and 11 minutes. Teachers deserve to make a billion dollars a year. Or a week.
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🚨BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
endorses
#YesOn15
👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you Gov. for this bold and historic step to right 42 years of a flawed policy that’s wrong for CA. Thank you for your commitment to our schools & communities, & for your leadership during this election.
#YesOn15
@Schools1stCA
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SOLIDARITY CALL!
@SacTeachers
will strike on Thursday, April 11 if the district does not honor their contract and stop unlawful labor practices. CTA has your back! Show Sac educators that you have their back too:
#SCTAGotYourBack
#SCTA4Students
#RedForEd
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Tick tock... ⏰
Educators waiting for Biden’s call after he promised to make an educator the Sec. of Education...
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These shareables & more are available in our Advocating for All Students: Social Justice Toolkit:
#CTAStateCouncil
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We stand in solidarity with Starbucks baristas fighting for their union! Instead of Starbucks cards as gifts, what would you rather receive?
#WeAreCTA
#NoContractNoGiftCards
Want to support us this holiday season? Don’t buy Starbucks gift cards.
#NoContractNoGiftCards
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"America’s teachers are caught in a trap, set by indecisive and conflicting sectors of failed leadership that have never been in their position and can’t possibly relate to the unique challenges they face."
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Thank you
@KellyRipa
!
"There has to be reverence when it comes to teaching because it is the most important job. They are so often times understaffed, underpaid, they have to provide their own school supplies."
#RedForEd
#UTLAStrong
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Solidarity with the 50,000 University of California academic workers on the picket lines today — the largest higher education strike in U.S. history 🪧✊
We call on UC management to give these workers the dignity, respect and livable wages they deserve.
#FairUCNow
#WeAreCTA
“We’re the ones who perform the majority of the teaching, and we’re the ones who perform the majority of the research,” said Rafael Jaime, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is president of U.A.W. Local 2865
#FairUCNow
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Educators demand that all children, regardless of their immigration status, be treated with utmost care once they cross our borders. That care begins by keeping families together.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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We are grieving and we are outraged. Together, we must continue the call for justice and to hold powerful people, and each other, accountable. What are you doing to work toward anti-racism every day?
#JusticeforGeogeFloyd
#JusticeforAhmaudArbery
#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
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Labor rights are women's rights! About 73% of California’s teachers are women, meaning that honoring the work of teachers is most often about honoring the work of women in our classrooms.
#WeAreCTA
#LaborDay
#UnionStrong
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Send our educators a message of solidarity and support while they fight for the public education our students deserve!
🍎📝
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Today is a great day for American educators and students: the people have spoken!
@JoeBiden
, a strong advocate for public schools, will be the 46th president of the United States! 😎
#EducatorsVote
#CountEveryVote
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WE. ARE. MDEA! 🪧✊🍎
The line of Mt. Diablo educators picketing in support of the
@OurMDEA
Bargaining Team just goes on and on and on — more than 500 strong here to show
@MtDiabloUSD
they are
#StrikeReady
. 💪
#WeAreMDEA
#WeAreCTA
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We asked California educators: "What do you wish the public understood about being an educator during the pandemic?" Their answers may surprise you.
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