Why does the VTA endorse?

This site will post factual information to counter the smear and fear campaign being waged against the Vista Unified School District, the Vista Teachers Association and the local California State Employee Association. I urge all voters in VUSD to vote in November for Elizabeth Jaka, Angela Chunka, and Dr. Steve Lilly—the three pro-public education candidates.

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Why does the VTA endorse?
Until 1992 there was no involvement of the VTA with school board elections. The VTA reluctantly was compelled to enter into the ugly field of politics in response to the election of a board majority that did not support the goals of public education. These candidates were stealth candidates that carefully hid their extremist agenda from the public. Only after they were elected did they unveil their attempts to destroy traditional public education in Vista. The chaos and discord their actions unleased made national headlines. The goings on of the VUSD anti group, which held the board majority, landed VUSD on the front page of the New York Times and other major newspapers across the country.Before 1992 Vista Teachers Association did not engage in politics have a political action committee, an interview panel or an interview process. All of the political action of the VTA is a direct result of attacks public education by the “anti” group.In the first months after the 1992 election, the stealth majority and their “anti” agenda turned down millions of dollars of Federal funds and grants and attacked the teaching of comprehensive sex education, and evidence based science in our VUSD classrooms. Their nuttiness eventually resulted in a community wide effort to recall them. Two were successfully recalled (Joyce Lee and John Tyndall) and a third declined to run for re-election (Deidre Holliday).Only many months, after the chaos generated by the “anti” majority was well underway, did the VTA first begin to organize a political response. Months later the VTA joined in the already established community organized recall of those “stealth” candidates. The VTA did not initiate the recall. The VTA does not support candidates with the hope of personal financial gain. VTA supports candidates who are most likely to put the public education needs of our students first and personal political agendas second.

Vista teachers would love to be out of local politics. When all candidates for school board are pro-public education, we can all go back to our regular lives.The timeline in this entry can be verified in the official notes of the VTA Representative Assembly and Executive Board.