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DESCRIPTION:On 9/17/2009 there will be a solidarity meeting for Richmond teachers who 
 face a possible strike and the use of $325 a day scabs\n\n9/17/2009 
 Richmond Teacher Solidarity Forum\n\nRichmond Teachers Support 
 Forum\n\nDate: Thursday, September 17, 2009\n\nWhere: Richmond Public 
 Library Community Room, 325 Civic Center Plaza, (Cross Street MacDonald 
 Ave.)\n\nTime: 7:00 PM\n\nCo-Sponsored by: Progressive Teachers Caucus, 
 UPWA, ASK Me 444, Richmond Progressive Alliance, S.W.A.T, (UC Berkeley), 
 WCCCQE, (West Contra Costa Community for Quality Education)\n\nThe West 
 Contra Costa Unified School District School Board has imposed changes to 
 working conditions for certificated and classified staff. They have imposed 
 furloughs to Local 1, and school administrators, fired 125 certificated 
 staff, and 70 classified staff. The school board also closed three schools. 
 In an email regarding school closures Antonio Medrano, (WCCUSD) school 
 board member said, “The school, the students, and noise will be gone, 
 (also litter, traffic, etc). I would think that you and your neighbors 
 would like not having a school in your neighborhood. We are facing massive 
 cuts to public education in our State and we need to present a balanced 
 budget to the State by the end of June.”\n\nImpositions in our working 
 conditions means cuts in social programs, class size ratios that increase 
 class sizes to 40+ students in elementary and secondary classes, furloughs, 
 elimination of Kindergarten teachers preparation time, non-instructional 
 funding (especially paying for consultants), and elimination of health 
 benefits for dependents. Our own WCCUSD President and kindergarten teacher 
 Audrey Miles casted the deciding votes to increase K-3 class size.\n\nWe 
 know that teachers working conditions are your students learning 
 conditions. Join Rank-and-File teachers, speak out and unite in solidarity 
 with the Student Worker Action Team (S.W.A.T), and union members from the 
 labor community to fight back against these attacks and to make public 
 education a priority!\n\nPartial Speakers List: Pedro Navarro, Richmond 
 Teacher since 2005, Member of A.R.E. (Association of Raza Educators) 
 Oakland Chapter, Diane Brown, Progressive Teachers Caucus, Claire Keating, 
 S.W.A.T., Wendy Gonzalez, homegrown teacher and community advocate, Oakland 
 Education Association representative, Charles Smith AFSCME 
 444.\n\nwww.upwa.info\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/13/18621873.php
SUMMARY:Richmond Teacher Solidarity Forum
LOCATION:Richmond Public Library Community Room, 325 Civic Center Plaza, (Cross 
 Street MacDonald Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/13/18621873.php
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