Demands
Demands 10/24/2009
Throughout the day of the October 24 Conference, individuals and organizations had the opportunity to raise the demands they felt were most crucial to this struggle. All written and spoken demands are compiled in a list shown below. We hope that the upcoming Spring Conference can move forward in democratically deciding on unifying demands for the statewide actions on March 4!
— Stop segregation of public education
— Stop privatization
— Set aside funds that support funding for education that politicians can’t take away from us
— Abolish the regents — for student, faculty, and community control of the regents
— End of fees
— Free education
— Abolish prison- industrial complex
— Free health care
— End wars
— CA Democracy Act Proposition
— Pass AB 656
— Defend ethnic studies
— No discriminatory cuts
— Revise prop 13
— End tax cuts for rich
— End foreclosures
— No taxing social services
— Fight for a labor party
— A dedicated, protected funding stream for adult education
— Repeal prop 209
End wars to fund education
End US money aide to Israel
— Financial aid to immigrant students
— Create meaningful jobs for all college graduates
— Expand demands beyond education
— Immigration reform, full rights for immigrant students at UC, CSU, CCs, Pre K-12, and Adult Education.
— Stop Arnie Duncan plan and privatization
— Increase underrepresented minority enrollment
— Allocate funds for recruitment and retention of minorities
— Scholarship fund for undocumented students
— Defend principle of public education across California
— Bail out education, not the banks
— Prioritize education spending
— Education is a priority above military spending
— Education-first budget, chop from the top
— Operation reset: all school and individual debt is forgiven
— Organize with underrepresented students of color across cultural lines by creating and organizing with student organizations not visible in this room
— Reduce class size
— End layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts and rehire all staff who have already been laid off
— Freeze on student tuition
— No cuts to departments and services
— No subcontractors in public education – all workers should be hired as state employees with full seniority
— Cap of $150,000 on administrator’s salaries and freeze on hiring new administrators
— Insured job security and fair wages for all workers and bargain in good faith with all unions
— Full disclosure of university and high school budgets
— Free onsite quality childcare for all students and workers
— All educational institutions should be sanctuary spaces for undocumented students and workers; adequate financial aid for undocumented students
— Free public education for all
— Expand enrollment of underrepresented groups and insure equal access to education for all
— Full legal and civil rights for all undocumented students and workers
— Truly democratic control by students, parents, workers over all schools, colleges and universities
— Cancel all student debt and expand scholarships for low income students
— Repeal No Child Left Behind
— End the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and Redirect war funding to education and single payer health care
— No budget cuts for public education, no cuts to education, give justice to our kids
— Pay cuts for the Regents and Administration of 1% to 15%, funds to be allocated for educational needs of respective institutions
— System-wide referendum
— Restore pre-prop 13 taxation of corporations
— Equal per pupil funding
— Full union rights for all education workers
— Restore class size limits
— Job security for academic student employees and lecturers
— Expand the board of directors for each UC, CSU, CC, and K-12 to include a significant amount of teachers, workers, and students with equal voting power
— Implement the California Master Plan of Education
— An education first budget policy within the educational system.
— Student & worker control of universities
— Develop a vision statement about the mission & purpose of education
— Overview of union organization
— Tax the rich
— Tax the corporations
— End minority rule in California
— Tax the oil companies
— Develop a campaign to enact progressive taxation in Sacramento
— Education not incarceration
