The California Teachers Association (CTA) is incredibly rich and powerful, and with that wealth and power comes arrogance -- the arrogance of the schoolyard bully who cannot stand to be challenged. Truth is always the enemy of the bully, which is why the bully expends so much time and effort to eliminate dissent based on truth.
At a September 21, 2001 “Fairness Hearing,” federal district court judge William H. Orrick, Jr. heard arguments opposing the latest proposed modifications to the city’s 20 year-old Consent Decree. The message conveyed by parents was clear: they refuse to return to the days in San Francisco Unified School District (“SFUSD” or the “district”) when school reform meant revamping student assignment policies, and multi-million dollar failed busing campaigns, all in the misguided hope that some new distribution of students — based on racial and socioeconomic background — would improve student achievement.
