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San Diego Elementary Teacher Pens Powerful Defense of Fair Share - California Teachers Association

San Diego Elementary Teacher Pens Powerful Defense of Fair Share - California Teachers Association:

SAN DIEGO ELEMENTARY TEACHER PENS POWERFUL DEFENSE OF FAIR SHARE

(Photo) During a recent education conference in Sacramento, Panelist Lindsay Burningham stresses the importance of legislators, school boards, and administrators hearing teachers’ voices, something their unions facilitate.
The conservative San Diego Union Tribune has published an eloquent andpowerfully written think piece by Lindsay Burningham, an elementary teacher, that defends the principle of all persons paying a fair share for the services they receive.

Burningham, who has been elected by her colleagues to represent them as president of the San Diego Education Association, takes on the corporate special interests behind the Friedrichs v. CTA lawsuit pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court case, funded by dollars coming from radical right wing ideologues like the infamous Koch brothers, seeks to overturn the Abood v. Detroit Board of San Diego Elementary Teacher Pens Powerful Defense of Fair Share - California Teachers Association: