California Educator

Summer 2026

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Celebrating Our #UnionStrong Wins in 2025–26 PAGE 6 Our Year of Action Our Union Wins Paid Pregnancy Leave Our union fought for and won this State Budget milestone PAGE 27 Our Fight for Health Care Strikes, actions lead to big gains PAGE 18 2 cta.org Summer 2026 C O N T E N T S Photos this page: Little Lake Education Assn. and United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) members on strike earlier this year. Cover: UESF members and allies march to City Hall; photograph by Zoe Hertz, @zoziehertz. Advocacy 26 STATE BUDGET: Among our wins: Paid Pregnancy Disability Leave, and ongoing funding for Community Schools. 30 ELECTION 2026: Richard Barrera makes the November run-off; Xavier Becerra for governor. In the Know 32 News & Notes Our Union 37 MANAGE STRESS: The Calm app. 38 REPORT: CTA's Economic Benefits Trust Member Welfare Benefit Plan. 39 OUR VISION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Let's dream big together! 40 YES ON PROP. 3: We must win at the ballot box to protect billions in school funding. 41 MINI-POSTER: for #YesOn3 UNION STRONG UNION STRONG S P E C I A L I S S U E 2 0 2 5 – 2 0 2 6 #

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