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The Advocate – 33.6 – May 2010 (2 MB)
In this issue:
- March for California’s Future points to ways forward from state’s budget crisis
- Contract talks focus on Board policies; economic issues still ahead
- More flex days, more non-instructional work, but less real professional development
- AFT and District Academic Senate make plans to collaborate
- Across AFT’s great divide: A part-timer’s view of losing classes
- A history of the neoliberal assault on public education
- Q&A about the District’s post-retirement health care funds
- Part-timers are eligible for unemployment benefits
- AFT 1493 elections have begun; don’t forget to vote