Who Speaks for the 90%?

Mike Antonucci:

In the 2010-11 school year, the San Diego Unified School District employed 7,095 teachers. The best information I can find suggests that about 450 were laid off for the 2011-12 school year and not recalled. That left 6,645 potential teacher members for the San Diego Education Association, the 26th largest teacher union local in the nation. We can only guess at how many are fee-payers and non-members, but historical data in California would put the figure at about 5 percent - or 332 teachers. That leaves 6,313 SDEA members eligible to vote in internal union elections.

That electorate has spoken - sort of. SDEA members re-elected Bill Freeman as president (he ran unopposed), but challenger Lindsay Burningham defeated incumbent vice president Camille Zombro. SDEA's incumbent secretary and treasurer were also unopposed.

Zombro was a former SDEA president, and was considered to be philosophically aligned with executive director Craig Leedham, who was placed on administrative leave by the union for undisclosed reasons earlier this month. Zombro reportedly won't be returning to the classroom, but will retain her full-time release position for SDEA in charge of organizing charter schools.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 24, 2012 1:43 AM
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