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CONTENTS
FEATURES
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In the age of testing, can schools teach critical thinking?
Providing calm when parents go off to war
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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Program helps at-risk students focus on positives
Bay Area rallies against Social Security offset law
Members celebrate Day of the Teacher, protest cuts
QEIA school makes strides, boosts test scores
Secretary of Education impressed with San Francisco QEIA site
LACEA decries cutting counselors for at-risk youth programs
On the cover: Palm Springs Teachers
Association member and eighthgrade science teacher Mina J. Blazy
at Desert Springs Middle School.
Story on page 8.
TAKING A STAND
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$1.4 million settlement for misclassified members
Sweetwater teachers: no confidence in superintendent
ACTION
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2-3 June.09.indd 3
Sanchez tells Council CTA will keep fighting
CTA, coalition battle governor over latest cuts
What you should do to prepare for second-round RIFs this summer
Sixteen winners of John Swett Awards
Trend toward teacher retirement on the rise
Calexico teachers win hard-fought contract
CTA-sponsored and co-sponsored legislation for 2009-10
Member profile: Leslie Hong
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