Schools and Proposition 8

Teachers and school employees of the Santa Clarita Valley are asking voters to look carefully at Proposition 8 on the November ballot and vote no.

Proposition 8 is a confusing stew of unrelated school issues masquerading as a class-reduction initiative. In fact, it does not provide any new money at all for class-size reductions beyond what we already have in grades K-3. What it does do is create an enormous new state education bureaucracy that state analysts predict will drain approximately $60 million away from education funding, money that could be going to the classrooms.

Prop. 8 is a deception that will undo the many efforts that have been made recently--and are still being made--to improve the quality of public education in California.

ORVAL GARRISON, President, Hart District Teachers Assn.

KEENAN WARNER, President, Newhall Teachers Assn.

JULIE WITTER, President, Sulphur Springs Teachers Assn.

LAURA TETER, President, Saugus Teachers Assn.

CYNTHIA SEAMANDS, President, Castaic Teachers Assn.

LINDA METZGER, President, Newhall Classified Employees

JERRY SAUER, President, Newhall Teachers Assn.

JANE LEE, President, Sulphur Springs Teachers Assn.

KATHY DeCHELLIS, President, Saugus Teachers Assn.