CUCFA and other UC organizations are gearing up for the spring legislative budgeting session. As a first step toward the March 4th day of action, the UCSC FA is collecting signatures of supportive faculty from all campuses at the Checking Education website at:
http://checkingeducation.com/faculty-statement
Please take a moment to visit the above web page and add your name to the list of supporters.
The statement reads, in part:
“The Governor acknowledged that student and faculty protests have affected him. The time for more pressure is now. We continue the fight for public education in California. On March 1, UC faculty, staff, and students will lobby the Governor and legislators in Sacramento. Then, the struggle for public education ramps up on March 4, a day of system- and state-wide actions called by students, staff, and faculty from the ten UC campuses, the Cal State University system, the Community Colleges, and K-12 schools. That day, there will be a march on Sacramento and other actions in the state capital, as well as actions on local campuses and elsewhere, to demand the restoration of high quality public education that is accessible and affordable to all. We, the undersigned UC faculty, will suspend “business as usual” and participate in the March 4th day of actions for public education.”