Carolyn Doggett has 14 years of teaching experience,
two in California and 12 in Alaska. She began her career teaching
first
grade at Brookside
Elementary School at Willits, California. She taught high school
English from 1969 to 1981 in Anchorage, AK. She was twice president
of the Anchorage Education Association and twice president of NEA-Alaska
(the state association affiliate of the National Education Association).
One of her major responsibilities during those years was to lobby
the Alaska Legislature.
From 1983 to 1992 Carolyn worked in San Francisco as a primary contact staff
person for the CTA. In 1992 she moved to Burlingame to serve as Assistant Executive
Director for Special Projects. In 1994 she became Deputy Executive Director
and 1995 was made
Executive Director of the California Teachers Association.
CTA enrolls almost 280,000 educators, the vast majority being K-12
teachers.
Carolyn has had extensive experience organizing such varied activities as representation
elections, Charter amendment campaigns, and school board and legislative campaigns.
She also coordinated the field program in the successful campaign to defeat
Proposition 174,
the vouchers initiative.
Carolyn holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and
has taken advanced coursework at the University of Santa Barbara and as well
as the University of Alaska, Anchorage, California State University at Sonoma,
and at Hayward, and the 1993 Harvard Trade Union Program. She is a fourth generation
Californian and a third generation teacher.
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