Alta Loma Educators Association

Adopting a merit pay system that would award effective teachers and give them incentives to work at low-performing campuses.

Abolishing the current cap on the number of charter schools that can open every year.

Forcing school districts to shut down or reconstitute the lowest-performing schools or turn them over to charter schools' independent management.

Allowing students at low-performing campuses to transfer to a school of their choosing.

Requiring school districts to consider student test data when evaluating teachers, something the federal government believes is prohibited under state law.

Passage of Senate Bill 19

The state legislature passed and the governor signed this senate bill. This bill deletes the Education Code sentence regarding the use of CATIDES data in teacher evaluations.

However, this has no direct impact on any evaluation provisions in collective bargaining agreements. It does not supersede, nullify, or require any changes to existing language that has been collectively bargained. It does not change existing Education Code provisions regarding evaluation, nor does it mandate making change in evaluation procedures.

No district can unilaterally change its evaluation procedures. Any and all proposed changes to the evaluation procedure must be properly sunshined, bargained in accordance with EERA, consummated as a bilateral agreement, and ratified by the local association's membership.

-Bargaining Advisory - CTA

"...California would be required to overhaul academic content standards that took seven years and about $6 billion to draft and enact - to qualify for up to $500 million in federal funding. The state would have to create a new testing system, mandate that teacher evaluations be based 'significantly' on student test scores, limit options to help our lower-performing schools, and allow unlimited expansion on charter schools..."

-California Educator, October 2009