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SRVUSD'S RADICAL TEACHER UNION

After a nasty series of teacher strikes in 1989-90, and then a recall election of Board members, the radical San Ramon Valley Education Association (SRVEA) gained effective background control of the SRVUSD School Board, and thereby, the School District.   SRVEA was named winner of the California Teachers Association's (CTA's) "Joyce Fadem Chapter in Politics Award" for the "success" of its strikes and recall. 

SRVEA is a subset of CTA.  In turn, CTA is a subset of the hard-left National Education Association (NEA).  Together, these teacher unions cause much trouble for schools and students — here and across the U.S.  

"I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers’ unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem."  — Communist Antonio Gramsci

"Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following:  the schools, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism… God will be banished from the laboratories, as well as from the schools."  (Toward Soviet America, by Communist William Z. Foster, 1932, p. 316)

1971 Soviet stamp honoring Foster

Problems (Tweets during 2011-2014) with SRVEA's endorsed and heavily funded candidate for an open SRVUSD School Board seat in the November 8, 2022 election were shown and discussed in THE ENGINE OF MATT TODD podcast.

SRVUSD teachers and classified employees who realize that it's time to leave your unions and their radical agendas can read about their rights here and here — and receive legal assistance if necessary here.

SRVEA'S endorsement of candidate Jerome Pandell appeared on the candidate's campaign website:  

OF ADDITIONAL INTEREST:  Outgoing SRVUSD School Board member Ken Mintz and current Board member Laura Bratt both joined the SRVEA Teacher Union in endorsing this same candidate, Jerome Pandell.  Those endorsements still appeared on the candidate's campaign website more than a month after election day:   

Bratt's endorsement included her own enthusiastic text:  

Other Pandell endorsers (who appear / appeared at https://jeromepandell.com/endorsements-2) included:
 

  • Joan Buchanan, former SRVUSD School Board member, later an Assemblywoman

  • Tom Torlakson, former Board of Supervisors member, later State Superintendent of Public Instruction

  • Tony Thurmond, current State Superintendent of Public Instruction

  • Eric Swalwell, Congressman

  • Sarah Butler, President of the Contra Costa County Board of Education

  • Lynn Mackey, Contra Costa County Board of Education Superintendent

  • Andy Li and Rebecca Barrett, Contra Costa Community College District Trustees

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