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Action Alert - July 12,2011

Stop Them from Turning Educators into Nurses!

CTA-opposed SB 161 (Huff), a bill that would allow non-medical personnel to administer Diastat – a form of valium -- rectally to students in the throes of a seizure passed the Assembly Education Committee on July 6 and is headed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for a hearing on or after August 15.
Members of Appropriations include Assemblymembers Fuentes, Harkey, Blumenfield, Bradford, Calderon, Campos, Davis, Donnelly, Gatto, Hall, Hill, Lara, Mitchell, Nielsen, Norby, Solorio, and Wagner.
At this time, making constituent contacts into local Assembly district offices is critical. It does not matter if the contacts are from teachers, classified employees, their family members, your family members, staff members, friends, etc. - particularly registered voters. Please share this request for help with as many individuals as possible.
To learn more about the bill and to take action against it, click on SB 161: Teachers As Nurses

The site will both provide information and link you to CTA’s contact your lawmakers site, where you will be able to secure contact information about your lawmakers.
If you’d like even more background, you can use the following link to find CTA’s letter of opposition to the bill and other items: http://www.cta.org/Issues-and-Action/Health-Care/Index.aspx.

(If clicking on the above link does not work, please paste the following directly in to your browser: http://capwiz.com/nea/ca/home/)