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-------------------- Union Opens Its Ranks to Non-Teachers --------------------

Support staff can now join the California Teachers Assn. The move is seen as a way to more easily organize charter campuses.

By Joe Mathews Times Staff Writer

June 5 2006

In a move that could ease organizing in charter schools and preschools, leaders of the state's largest teachers union announced Sunday that they have opened their ranks to school secretaries, bus drivers and other education professionals who aren't teachers.

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