California Teachers Association
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| California Teachers Association | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Burlingame, California |
| Type: | 501(c)(5) |
| Affiliation: | National Education Association |
| Top official: | E. Toby Boyd, President |
| Year founded: | 1863 |
| Website: | Official website |
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is a labor union for public school teachers and education support staff in California. CTA is an affiliate of the National Education Association.[1]
The California Teachers Association has a political action committee called the California Teachers Association Issues PAC, which makes contributions to ballot measure campaigns.
Background[edit]
History[edit]
The California Teachers Association (CTA) was established in 1863 as the California Educational Society. The organization became known as the CTA in 1911.[1]
According to the CTA, there are more than 1,100 local affiliates, representing 310,000 public school teachers, counselors, librarians, and education support professionals. The California Community College Association is also affiliated with CTA.[1]
CTA is affiliated with the 3.2 million-member National Education Association.[1]
Mission[edit]
The CTA listed the following as the organization's mission statement:[1]
| “ | The California Teachers Association exists to protect and promote the well-being of its members; to improve the conditions of teaching and learning; to advance the cause of free, universal, and quality public education for all students; to ensure that the human dignity and civil rights of all children and youth are protected; and to secure a more just, equitable, and democratic society.[2] | ” |
Political activity[edit]
Ballot measure activity[edit]
Overview of ballot measure support and opposition[edit]
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The following table details the California Teachers Association's ballot measure stances since 2000 that are available on Ballotpedia.
California Proposition 15, Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative (2020)[edit]
In 2019, the California Teachers Association (CTA) endorsed the Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative and contributed to the campaign behind the measure.[26] The ballot initiative was designed to require commercial and industrial properties, except those zoned as commercial agriculture, to be taxed based on their market value, rather than their purchase price. The ballot initiative was also written to allocate the tax revenue to local governments and schools.
Eric C. Heins, then-president of the CTA, said, "This initiative is about ensuring everyone pays their fair share and ending a decades-old loophole that has kept our students, schools and communities chronically underfunded. Corporations have not only gotten an outrageous break at the expense of students and individual taxpayers, but many big companies have gamed the system to prevent fair reassessment when they transfer ownership of their properties."[27]
Noteworthy events[edit]
Friedrichs v. CTA[edit]
On January 11, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case that addressed the constitutionality of requiring public employees to pay agency shop fees to public-sector unions. A group of California teachers, who were nonunion members, petitioned the court to rule on whether being required to pay a fee to a union is a violation of their First Amendment rights.
Charlotte Garden, an associate professor at Seattle University's law school and a labor-law expert, said, "the case is a big deal. It's not heralding the end of public-sector unionism the way some people have suggested. But it is going to matter a lot in terms of upsetting settled labor contracts."[28]
The court also considered whether it violates the First Amendment rights of the teachers to have to opt-out of paying the union for the political activities that they engage in annually, rather than opting in.[29]
On March 29, 2016, the court issued a split decision, affirming the decision of the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court.[30]
Finances[edit]
The following is a breakdown of California Teachers Association's revenues and expenses as submitted to the IRS for the 2012 to 2019 fiscal years:
| Annual revenue and expenses for California Teachers Association, 2012–2019 | ||
| Tax Year | Total Revenue | Total Expenses |
| 2019[31] | $211,597,899 | $179,501,547 |
| 2018[32] | $209,018,052 | $174,698,889 |
| 2017[33] | $199,767,162 | $174,186,186 |
| 2016[34] | $190,016,699 | $185,556,381 |
| 2015[34] | $186,070,490 | $174,655,722 |
| 2014[35] | $187,154,735 | $162,184,619 |
| 2013[36] | $183,178,990 | $179,797,907 |
| 2012[37] | $185,809,971 | $167,074,894 |
Tax status[edit]
The California Teachers Association is a 501(c)(5) nonprofit organization. 501(c)(5) is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax exemption status that applies to nonprofit agricultural, horticultural or labor organizations.[38] Agricultural organizations include entities that engage in fishing, forestry, raising livestock, or growing and harvesting crops. Horticultural organizations denote entities that cultivate plants for decorative or functional purposes.[39] Since politics and legislation may directly impact labor or agricultural activities, 501(c)(5) organizations may engage in lobbying and campaign activities as a means of advancing the interests of their members.[40]
Recent news[edit]
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See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 California Teachers Association, "Fact Sheet," accessed January 16, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Yes on 1, "Our Coalition," accessed January 6, 2023
- ↑ CTA, "Educators Recommend Candidates and Ballot Initiatives," May 25, 2022
- ↑ CTA, "Educators Recommend Candidates and Ballot Initiatives," May 25, 2022
- ↑ CTA, "Educators Recommend Candidates and Ballot Initiatives," May 25, 2022
- ↑ CTA, "Educators Recommend Candidates and Ballot Initiatives," May 25, 2022
- ↑ CTA, "Educators Recommend Candidates and Ballot Initiatives," May 25, 2022
- ↑ Schools and Communities First, "Endorsers," accessed December 3, 2018
- ↑ Californians for Safe Schools and Healthy Learning, "Supporters," accessed January 22, 2020
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 LA School Report, "Analysis: California Teachers Association to spend up to $10 million supporting two statewide ballot initiatives — and opposing three others," June 26, 2018
- ↑ Yes on 52, "Our Coalition," accessed September 14, 2016
- ↑ Yes on 55, "Endorsements," accessed September 15, 2016
- ↑ Yes on 58, "Endorsements," accessed September 15, 2016
- ↑ Yes on 59, "Endorsements," accessed September 16, 2016
- ↑ Cal-Access, "Coalition for Veterans Housing," accessed June 3, 2014
- ↑ Yes on 42, "Who Supports Prop 42?" accessed May 28, 2014
- ↑ Stop Higher Health Care Costs, "Who We Are, accessed July 3, 2014
- ↑ Californians for Safe Neighborhoods and Schools, "Who Supports Reform," accessed September 8, 2014
- ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 20.18 20.19 20.20 20.21 20.22 20.23 20.24 20.25 20.26 20.27 20.28 20.29 20.30 20.31 20.32 20.33 20.34 20.35 20.36 20.37 20.38 20.39 20.40 20.41 20.42 20.43 20.44 20.45 Cal-Access, "CTA Issues PAC," accessed January 15, 2020
- ↑ California Teachers Association, "Weekend long surge: Governor and Educators Statewide Unite in Saying Yes to Prop. 30, No on 32," October 21, 2012
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "No on 22," accessed June 24, 2015
- ↑ No on Prop 23, "Our Coalition," accessed October 12, 2010
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Yes on 24," accessed June 24, 2015
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Yes on 25," accessed June 24, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "'Split-roll' backers will refile tax initiative in expensive rewrite," August 13, 2019
- ↑ California Teachers Association, "CTA Backs CA Schools and Local Communities Funding Act for November 2020 Ballot," February 20, 2019
- ↑ Education Week, "High Stakes in Union-Fee Case Before Supreme Court," accessed January 7, 2016
- ↑ American Bar Association, "Brief for Petitioners Rebecca Friedrichs, et al.," accessed September 22, 2015
- ↑ U.S. Supreme Court, "Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association," March 29, 2016
- ↑ GuideStar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2019)," accessed May 4, 2021
- ↑ GuideStar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2017)," accessed April 13, 2020
- ↑ GuideStar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2016)," accessed January 6, 2020
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 GuideStar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2015)," accessed January 6, 2020
- ↑ GuideStar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2013)," accessed January 19, 2016
- ↑ Guidestar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2012)," accessed January 19, 2016
- ↑ Guidestar, "The California Teachers Association IRS Form 990 (2011)," accessed January 19, 2016
- ↑ Internal Revenue Service, "IRC 501(c)(5) organizations," accessed December 21, 2015
- ↑ Internal Revenue Service, "Labor organizations," accessed December 21, 2015
- ↑ Internal Revenue Service, "Political campaign and lobbying activities of IRC 501(c)(4), (c)(5), and (c)(6) organizations," accessed December 21, 2015
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