Urge Your State Lawmakers to Vote 'YES' on AB 3 and SB 3 Today! 

STEP 1

Use CTA’s toll-free hotline number: (888) 268-4334.

If you are calling from your home phone, the toll-free number will connect you automatically to your Assemblymember or State Senator.
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If the hotline cannot read your number, it will ask you to enter your zip code and then you will be connected.

STEP 2

Once you are connected:

• Ask to speak to the Assemblymember or Senator. If he/she is not available, leave a message with the legislator’s staff or record a message on the answering machine.

• Be sure to identify yourself as a constituent living in the district, as well as a classroom teacher/education support professional/or college instructor.

• Leave your contact information so the lawmakers or their staff can get back to you.

STEP 3

Make these important points:

• Vote “Yes” on the budget compromise that protect Proposition 98 and the “maintenance factor.” The plan commits the state to restore about $11.3 billion in future years. Vote "Yes" on AB3 and SB3.

• Support the compromise because it rejects the governor’s original proposal to suspend Proposition 98. The suspension of that CTA-initiated constitutional protection for schools could have paved the way to virtually unlimited education cuts.

• California’s public schools are being hit by another $6 billion cut on top of the record $12 billion already cut! These are the largest education slashes since the Great Depression. The problem will only get worse if this compromise doesn’t pass.

• Approve this budget compromise now so local school districts can move forward and get ready for the new school year. 

STEP 4

Then call the Governor at one of his offices:

State Capitol: 916-445-2841
Fresno: 559-477-1804
Los Angeles: 213-897-0322
Riverside: 951-680-6860
San Diego: 619-525-4641
San Francisco: 415-703-2218 

STEP 5

Provide your feedback to CTA Legislative Relations:
Email budgetadvocates@cta.org or call 916-325-1500.