Bringing politics onto the school grounds
The teacher unions are at it again. An assembly bill, AB 503 has been sponsored by Democrat (what else?) assemblywoman Christine Kehoe in San Diego, California (where else?) to "allow teacher unions and other school employee unions to use public schools for political campaigning directed at faculty members and other school employees". This sort of campaigning is currently illegal, and for good reason:
Teachers and other school employees should be free of political pressures at their taxpayer-funded workplace. Using school facilities and services to push political candidates or ballot measures violates schools' political neutrality. School facilities and services are paid for by taxpayers of all political persuasions.
Most people would agree that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for facilities and services that may be used explicitly to support candidates or ballot measures with which they may disagree. AB 503 would change all that.
It exempts school unions, and only the unions, from the current law . According to the Legislative Counsel, it would allow school employee organizations to use school "bulletin boards, mailboxes, and other means of communication" to urge the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate. The only caveat is that the political postings cannot be in areas of general public view. The implications are wide ranging.
Emphasis mine. The postings are forced to remain "out of public view," which means posters are out - but flyers, mailings, and emails will be just fine. Note that the school unions are not fighting for the right for all political groups to support candidates on campus. The unions want to keep that right all to themselves.