Opposition to Proposition 54

Education officials
Health Organizations
Health Professionals
Public Officials
Organizations
Political Organizations
Individuals
Bar Associations

Education officials

Jeannie Oakes
Presidential Professor
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Daniel G. Solorzano
Chair & Professor
UCLA Department of Education
Associate Director, UC Accord
P. David Pearson
Dean, Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Deborah J. Stipek
Dean, School of Education
Stanford University
William Russell Ellis, Jr.
Vice Chancellor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
Glynda Hull
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Kim Geron
Treasurer, California Faculty Association
Pedro A. Noguera
Judith K. Dimon Professor of Schools and Communities
Harvard University
Maryl Gearhart
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Susan Katz
Professor
University of San Francisco
Steve Jubb
Educator
Oakland, CA
Rick Ayers
Teacher, Communication Arts and Sciences
Berkeley High School
Dana Moran
Teacher
Berkeley High School
Martin Greenberger
IBM Professor
The Anderson School
UCLA
David J. Sanchez, Jr.
Professor
University of California San Francisco
Margaret (Greta) Gibson
Professor of Education and Anthropology
UC Santa Cruz.
Bud Mehan
Professor
UCSD
Helen Duffy
Stanford University
David Silver
Co-Director
UC-ACCORD Opportunity Indicators Project
Janelle S. Wong
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Michael A. Stoll
Associate Professor
UCLA
Jane Naomi Iwamura
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Margarita Azmitia
Professor of Psychology
University of California at Santa Cruz
Rebecca A. London
Assistant Research Professor
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community
University of California, Santa Cruz
Yolanda Meriah Arias, Ph.D.
Lisa García Bedolla
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
& Chicano/Latino Studies Program
University of California, Irvine
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Dorian T. Warren
Ph.D. Candidate
Yale University
Janelle Wong, Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Department of Political Science
Program in American Studies and Ethnicity
Russell W. Rumberger
Director, UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Ong, Ph.D. Professor, School of Public Policy and Social Research
Professor, Asian American Studies
Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Joanne Leslie
Community Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health
Catherine R. Cooper
Professor of Psychology and Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Samantha Paredes Scribner
University of California, Riverside
Olga Vasquez
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Vivian Tseng
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
California State University, Northridge
Concepcion M. Valadez
Professor of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul W. Newacheck, DrPH
Professor of Health Policy
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Gordon Wells,
Professor of Education,
UC Santa Cruz.
David L. & Margo J. Kipps
Santa Cruz, CA
Alaina Kipps. M.D.
Santa Cruz, CA
Corinne Kipps
Santa Cruz, CA
Judith Jackson Fossett
Professor
University of Southern California
Maika Watanabe
Assistant Professor
San Francisco State University
David M. Donahue
Assistant Professor
Mills College
Cyrus Armajani
Educational Consultant
UC Berkeley Graduate 2003
Ysaaca Axelrod
Kindergarten Teacher,
Mount Diablo Unified School District
Joseph Flessa
Assistant Professor
St. Mary's College of California
Pamela E. Aschbacher
Director of Research on K-12 Science Education,
California Institute of Technology
Alicia Alonzo
Researcher, K-12 Science Education,
California Institute of Technology
Mary Sue Ammon
Staff Research Associate
Service Learning R&D Center
U.C. Berkeley
Amanda Lashaw
doctoral student, Graduate School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Elisabeth Woody
Project Director, PACE
University of California, Berkeley
Martha Williams
Co-Director, Bay Area Writing Project
U.C. Berkeley
Kathryn Young
doctoral student, School of Education
UC Berkeley
Shannon Carey
UC Berkeley graduate student
Oakland Unified School District Teacher
Maryl Gearhart
Adjunct Associate Professor
U.C. Berkeley
Geoffrey B. Saxe
Professor, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Andrea diSessa
Professor, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
James L. Nagle
doctoral student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Robert E. Jorgensen
Director, Bay Area Consortium for Urban Education
UC Berkeley
Patricia Baquedano-López
Assistant Professor, School of Education,
U.C. Berkeley
Jenny Kao
doctoral student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Suzanna Loper
doctoral student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Carrie Caudle
M.A. student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Lizbet Simmons
doctoral student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Paul Ammon
Professor and Director
Developmental Teacher Education Program
School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Emily Dale
doctoral student, School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Mara Welsh Mahmood
Director of Site Development & Evaluation Issues
University Community Links
School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
Lynda Tredway
Coordinator, Principal Leadership Institute
School of Education
UC Berkeley
Alice Miano
Coordinator, Spanish Language Program
Stanford University
Richard Shavelson
Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Psychology,
Stanford University
Susan Sandler
Director, Educational Justice Program
Justice Matters Institute
San Francisco, CA
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
Cynthia Young
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
W. Norton Grubb
David Gardner Chair in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley.
Judy Zalazar Drummond
Teacher Education Department
University of San Francisco
Jean Yonemura Wing
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Sanchez
Doctoral student
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Tomasa Duenas
Student
University of California, Berkeley
Wayne Enanoria
Graduate Student
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Rocio Toriz
Student
University of San Francisco Law School
Tomasa Duenas
Student
San Francisco State University
Diane Doe
Retired public school teacher
San Francisco, CA
Lynn Kepp
Science Outreach Coordinator
New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Della Peretti
Academic Coordinator, Developmental Teacher Education Program
University of California, Berkeley
Sarah Muirhead
Kindergarten teacher
Oak Grove School District
San Jose, CA
Michael S. Katz
Professor of Secondary Education
San Jose State University
David Whitenack
Associate Professor of Education
San Jose State University
Carol Robledo
Adjunct Professor
Elementary Education
San Jose State University
Kathleen A. Morgan
Teacher/Literacy mentor
Oak Grove School District
San Jose, CA
Katharine Davies Samway
Professor of Education
San Jose State University
Peter Youngs
Research Associate
Stanford University
Anne K.F. Johnson
Coordinator, Multiple Subject Credential Program
University of California, Irvine
Suzanne Henriod
Retired Teacher/Teacher Educator
San Diego, CA
Elise Boyd
student teacher
San José State University
Christina S. Margason
Kindergarten teacher
Oak Grove School District
San Jose, CA
Dale Mitchell
First grade teacher
Oak Grove School District
San Jose, CA
John Haselden
student teacher
San Jose State University
Susan Freeman
Teacher Consultant
Central California Writing Project
Santa Cruz, CA
Lisa Tripp
Visiting Faculty, Communication
University of California, San Diego
Patricia M. McDonough
Associate Professor
Higher Education & Organizational Change
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Health Organizations

Alameda Health Consortium
American Academy of Pediatrics, California District
American Public Health Association
American Heart Association, Western States Affiliate
Armenian American Medical Society
Asian Health Services
Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Breast Cancer Action
Breast Cancer Fund
California Academy of Family Physicians
California Association of Public Hospitals
California Black Health Network
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
California Conference of Local Health Officers
California Healthcare Association
California Medical Association
California Nurses Association
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
California Primary Care Association
California Public Health Association-North
California Public Health Association-South
Capitol Medical Society
Center for Environmental Health
Health & Environmental Justice Project
Health Officers Association of California
Health Services Agency -- County of Santa Cruz
Healthy Children Organizing Project
Kaiser Permanente
La Clinica de la Raza
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Native American Health Center
Los Angeles Free Clinic
North Coast Clinics Network
National Latina Health Organization
North Coast Clinics Network
Orange County Asian & Pacific Islander Community Alliance
PALS for Health
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California
Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Area system
Public Health Institute
Rucker's Wellness Center
Trust for America's Health
Trust for America's Health
Women's Community Clinic
Women's Health Leadership

Health Professionals

(titles included for identification purposes only):

Dr. Nancy Bowen, MD
Brian Smedley, PhD, National Academy of Science
Dina Burrell, Staff Writer, LA County Medical Association
Dong Suh, Policy and Planning Director, Asian Health Services
Dr. Alberto Bolanos, MD, Surgeon
Dr. Alice Chen, MD, MPH
Dr. Armen Cherik, MD, MBA
Dr. Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH, Medical Director & Vice President of External Relations, Public Health Institute
Dr. Darryl Sexton, MD, Health Officer, City of Long Beach
Dr. David McNutt, MD, MPH, Health Officer, Health Services Agency-County of Santa Cruz
Dr. David Pryor, MD
Dr. Dexter Louie, MD
Dr. Eileen Chun, MD
Dr. Felipe Dominguez, MD
Dr. Frank Staggers, MD
Dr. Glennah Trochet, MD, Health Officer, Sacramento County Department of Health Services
Dr. Harvey M. Weinstein, MD, Associate Director, Human Rights Center & Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Dr. Kwabena Adubofour, MD, Fifth Street Medical Center
Dr. La Donna White, MD
Dr. Margaret Juarez, MD
Dr. Michael McLean, MD, MS, Health Officer, Kings County, Tulare County
Dr. Mylene Rucker, MD
Dr. Patricia Castaneda-Davis, MD, La Clinica de la Raza
Dr. Paula Braverman, MD, MPH, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
Dr. Ray Morales, MD, Medical Director, Blue Cross of California
Dr. Richard Garcia, MD
Dr. Sandra Perez, MD
Dr. Walter Morris, MD
Kristen Marchi, MPH, Principal Analyst, UCSF
Marty Fenstersheib, Health Officer, Santa Clara County
Nina Mulia, DrPH
Patricia Fajardo, RN, MPH
Professor Barbara Anderson, Loma Linda University School of Public Health
Professor David Hayes-Bautista, PhD, School of Medicine, UCLA
Raul Calderon, Jr., Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford School of Medicine
Ruth Roemer, JD, UCLA School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor Emerita
Sharon Grigsby, ED PHBT Preparedness, County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services

Public Officials

California Governor Gray Davis
California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer
California State Treasurer Phil Angelides
California State Controller Steve Westley
California State Superintendent of Education Jack O'Connel
l California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi
US Congressman Howard Berman, 26th District
US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, 9th District
US Congresswoman Diane Watson, 33rd Congressional District
US Congresswoman Hilda Solis, 32nd District
California Assemblymember Carol Liu, 44th District
California State Assemblymember Cindy Montanez
California Assemblymember Darrell Steinberg, 9th District
California Assemblymember George Nakano, 53rd District
California Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg, 45th District
California Assemblymember Jerome Horton, 51st District
California Assemblymember Judy Chu, 49th District
California Assemblymember Mark Leno, 13th District
California Assemblymember Wilma Chan, 16th District, Assembly Majority Leader
California Board of Equalization Member John Chiang, District 4
California State Senator Richard Alarcon, District 20
California State Senator Betty Karnette, District 27
California State Senator Byron Sher, District 11
California State Senator Dean Florez, District 16
California State Senator Deborah Ortiz, District 6
California State Senator Debra Bowen, District 28
California State Senator Dede Alpert, District 39
California State Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny, District 40
California State Senator Don Perata, District 9
California State Senator Edward Vincent, District 25
California State Senator Gloria Romero, District 24
California State Senator Jack Scott, District 21
California State Senator Jackie Speier, District 8
California State Senator John Burton, District 3
California State Senator John Vasconcellos, District 13
California State Senator Joseph Dunn, District 34
California State Senator Kevin Murray, District 26
California State Senator Michael Machado, District 5
California State Senator Nell Soto, District 32
California State Senator Richard Alarcon, District 20
California State Senator Tom Torlakson, District 7
Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington
Los Angeles City Councilmember Alex Padilla
Los Angeles City Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles City Councilmember Bernard Parks
Los Angeles City Councilmember Dennis Zine
Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss
Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry
Los Angeles City Councilmember Martin Ludlow
Los Angeles City Councilmember Tony Cardenas
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn
San Francisco Board of Education
San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Eric Mar
San Francisco City College Board of Trustees
San Jose City Councilmember Terry Gregory

Organizations

A.Philip Randolph Institute
ACLU of Northern California
ACLU of San Diego
ACLU of Southern California
Alliance of Black NCR Employees
American Association for Affirmative Action
American GI Forum of California
American Sociological Association
Anti-Defamation League
Architects, Planners & Designers for Social Responsibility
ARIS of Santa Clara
Asian American Drug Abuse Program
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Pacific American Legal CenterAsian Pacific Americans for an Informed California
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Associated Students of UC San Diego
Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans
Butte Environmental Council
California Black Faculty and Staff Association
California Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education
California Common Cause
California Faculty Association
California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, Oakland
California Latino Civil Rights Network
California National Organization for Women
California Parent Teachers Association (PTA)
California Prison Focus
California Teachers Association
California Tomorrow
California Women's Law Center
Californians for Justice
Cambodian Association of America
C-Beyond: Youth Making History
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Center for Third World Organizing
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Centro Legal de la Raza
Centro Shalom
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Chinese Progressive Association
Clean Water Action
Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles
Communities for a Better Environment
Communities United Against Violence
Community Development Institute
Drug Policy Alliance Network
Ecology Center
Education Trust West
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environmental Justice Coalition
Equal Rights Advocates
Fresno Center for Nonviolence
Gay / Straight Alliance Network
Greenlining Institute
Growing Children
Hapa Issues Forum
Intergroup Clearing House - Stop Hate Crimes
Japanese American Citizens League - Pacific Southwest District Civil Rights Caucus
John Gardner Center/Yell Project
Justice Matters Institute
La Raza Centro Legal
Latino Business Association
Latino Council of Marin
Laborers' International Union of North America
Latino Issues Forum
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Leadership Excellence
League of Women Voters of California
Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
MALDEF - Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Movement Strategy Center
Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy
NAACP
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium
National Black Police Association, Inc.
National Association of Social Workers - CA Chapter
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Coalition of Education Activists
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Lawyers Guild
National Organization for Women - UC Berkeley Chapter
National Pacific Islander Educator Network
Natural Resources Defense Council
Neighbor to Neighbor
Organization of Chinese Americans
Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs
People For the American Way
People United for a Better Oakland
Planning and Conservation League
PolicyLink
Progressive Jewish Alliance
Public Advocates, Inc.
San Diego Alliance for Asian Pacific Islander Americans
San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
San Diego LGBT Community Center
San Jose-Evergreen Community College District
San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Challenge
San Francisco Black Firefighters Association
School of Unity and Liberation
Service Employees International Union California State Council
Service Employees International Union, Local 2028
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network
Sierra Club
Sillicon Valley Toxics Coalition
South Asian Network
Speak Out
St. Peter's Housing Committee
Student Empowerment Project
Transportation and Land Use Coalition
UCLA Graduate Students Association
Underground Railroad
United States Student Association
University of California Regents
Urban Habitat
Urban League - San Diego
Voluntarios de la Comunidad
Watts/Century Latino Organization
Women's Foundation
Youth in Focus
Youth Empowerment Center
Youth Media Council

Political Organizations

Americans for Democratic Action
Asian Pacific Islander Democrats of San Diego County
Black American Political Association of California
Los Angeles Democratic Party
Pasadena Young Democrats
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Power P.A.C.

Individuals

Professor Elaine Peterson, Assistant Professor, CSU Stanislaus
Aashish Parekh, Teacher, Compton Unified School District
Alma Vegor, UC Berkeley Student Body Representative
Angela M. Beck, San Francisco, CA
Anthony Garavente, California Faculty Association, Carson, CA
Audrena Redmond, California Faculty Association, Southern California Political Coordinator, California State University Dominguez Hills
Catherine Cubbin, Ph.D. Stanford University Research Fellow
Cecil E. Canton, Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Chris Mays, San Francisco State Univesity, Senior Assistant Librarian
Christine Maitland, National Education Association, Organizational Specialist
Clifford Hong, JD, Vice Co-Chair, Ethnic Minority Relations Committee, CA State Bar
Dan Fendel, San Francisco State University, Professor of Mathematics
Don Hightower, State Coordinator, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Oakland, CA
Dorothy Chen-Maynard, Program Director, California State University San Bernadino
Dr. Lewis Call, Lecturer Department of History, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Dr. Muogo Nyaggah, California State University Fullerton
Eloise McQuown, San Francisco State University, Librarian
Emma C. Gibson, Librarian, Cal Poly Pomona
Erik Schnabel, Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
Firyali Makau, Community Technology Director, San Diego Urban League and San Diego Urban League Young Professionals
Gerald Solomon, JD, CEO, PHFE Management Solutions
Gregory Douglas Chew, San Francisco, CA
Harriet Lord, President of California Faculty Association, Cal Poly Pomona Chapter
James Smith, California Faculty Association, Los Angeles, CA
Jan Gregory, Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Javier Stauring, Coordinator of Juvenile Detention Ministry, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Sanford, Staff Psychologist, Humbolt State University
John Hess, California Faculty Association, Regional Representative, Oakland California
Joseph Pasquariello, Oakland, CA
Joseph Torres, Assistant Dean, San Francisco State University
Joyce C. Lashof, Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley
Judith Little, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Humboldt State University
Judith Thigpen, Oakland, CA
Julian Bond, National Chair, NAACP
Kimberly A. Jameson, Ph.D. Del Mar, CA
Laurie Drabble, Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
Leslie Grier, Assistant Professor, Cal State University Fullerton, Yorba Linda, CA
Maria Cesena, Student, San Diego, CA
Mitch Turitz, San Francisco State University. California Faculty Association Chapter President
Myrna Cherkess Donohue, Assistant Professor, Coordinator, Department of Women's Studies
Pat Zambell, Director, Lecturer Support Program, Cal Poly Pomona
Patricia Soung, Program Fellow, Tides Foundation
Patricia Zavella, Merill College, UC Santa Cruz
Paul Gilmore, Lecturer in History, CSU Fresno
Peter Q. Nguyen, Santa Monica, CA
Professor Alexander Yamato, California State University San Jose
Professor Bede Ssensalo, California Black Faculty and Staff Association
Professor Chandra S. Brahma, Civil Engineering, California State University Fresno
Professor Elaine Kim, Asian American Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
Professor Emeritus Sally Hurtado, School of Education, Sonoma State University
Professor James Conway, Department of Speech and Communication, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Professor John J. Saraillé, CSU Stanislaus
Professor John Travis, Humboldt State University
Professor Jorge Mariscal, Associate Professor, Dept. of Literature, UC San Diego
Professor Manzar Foroohar, Department of History, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Professor Margaret Costa, California State University, Long Beach
Professor Patricia Evridge Hill, California Faculty Association, San Jose State University
Professor R. Jeff Lustig, Government, CSU Sacramento
Professor Robert D. Merill, Geologist, CSU Fresno and California Faculty Association
Professor Roberta Ahlquist, San Jose State University, San Jose
Professor Rose Marie Keelan, Department of French, California State University Fresno
Professor W.M. Littell, Emeritus, San Francisco State University
R. Eunice Aaron, Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Rachel Jackson, State Field Director, Books Not Bars
Rhonda Sarnoff, Policy Analyst, Berkeley, CA
Roberta Welling, Research Scientist, Berkeley, CA
Sara Peterson, Project Direct, UCSF
Shifra Goldman, Los Angeles, CA
Susan Meisenhelder, President, California Faculty Association
Taeku Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Tyrone Freeman, President, Local 434B, SEIU
Thomas Wei, Berkeley JACL Civil Rights Chair, JACL Berkeley Chapter
Tom Rivera, Associate Dean, CSUSB