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Friday, March 11, 2011

District heavyweights to Capitol | Thoughts on Public Education

District heavyweights to Capitol | Thoughts on Public Education

District heavyweights to Capitol

Superintendents to lobby on budget
By Kathryn Baron

This year’s day of action organized by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) comes barely 24 hours before the day of reckoning for thousands of teachers.

On Monday, superintendents and principals from across the state will meet with legislators to urge them to set aside political infighting and do what’s right for the state’s children. The next day, March 15, upwards of 17,000 teachers will receive pink slips informing them that they may lose their jobs.

The big push, of course, will be persuading two Republicans in the state Senate and two in the Assembly to break with their party and support Gov. Brown’s plan to place the tax