Issues & Action

Discover the most important issues impacting Whittier teachers and find out how you can help. 

Yes on Proposition 30 Campaign

"Increases taxes on earnings over $250,000 for seven years and sales taxes by ¼ cent for four years, to fund schools. Guarantees public safety realignment funding. Fiscal Impact: Increased state tax revenues through 2018–19, averaging about $6 billion annually over the next few years. Revenues available for funding state budget. In 2012–13, planned spending reductions, primarily to education programs, would not occur."

Voting Yes on Prop 30 Will...

  • Stop another $6 billion in cuts to our schools this year. After years of cuts, our schools still face a $6 billion dollar budget deficit this year. If we do nothing, the cuts will get deeper.  Prop. 30 stops the cuts, provides billions in new funding for our schools starting this year --- supporting everything from smaller class sizes to afterschool programs.

  • Guarantee local public safety funding. Prop. 30 establishes a guarantee for public safety funding in our state’s constitution, where it can’t be touched without voter approval. This will keep cops on the street and save the state billions in prison costs over the long term.


No on Proposition 32 Campaign

Prop 32, the so-called “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act” is not what it seems. Supporters claim it will take big money out of politics and fix all of Sacramento's problems, but in reality, this measure targets unions - one of the strongest advocates for the middle class in this state - and was intentionally written to give billionaire businessmen and corporate special interests even more political power. It's more appropriately called the “Special Exemptions Act”.

3 Things You Should Know About Prop 32

  1. Prop 32 creates special exemptions for wealthy donors and corporate special interests, allowing them to keep spending unlimited amounts through business front groups.
  2. Prop 32 does nothing to restrict secretive Super PACs and their undisclosed donors from spending millions to influence elections in California.
  3. Prop 32 singles out everyday heroes like teachers, nurses and firefighters, by limiting their ability to speak out about critical issues in our communities that matter to us all.
Corporations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade on ballot measures and independent expenditure campaigns in our state. Prop 32 does nothing to change that. Secretive Super PACs will become the law of the land in California.