E. Toby Boyd reelected president of California Teachers Association

California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd, a kindergarten teacher in the Elk Grove Unified School District, was re-elected during the quarterly meeting of the State Council of Education — a policymaking body made up of 700 delegates.

Boyd, 62, will serve a second two-year term as president of the 310,000-member teachers’ union.

David Goldberg, vice president, and Leslie Littman, secretary, were also re-elected to two-year terms. Goldberg, 49, has spent most of his career as a bilingual teacher at Murchison Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Littman, 52, has taught Advanced Placement U.S. history, economics and government at Hart High School in the William S. Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita for 25 years.

“We hear the concerns of parents, students and fellow educators every day and are deeply committed to advocating for a strong public health infrastructure and layered prevention measures within schools that are effectively maintained and enforced,” Boyd said in a statement. “Combined with a deliberate vaccine roll out for all school employees, we look forward to working with parents, local school districts and communities to safely open our schools for in-person instruction. The pandemic is not going to interfere with CTA’s long-standing mission to proudly advocate for a free and equitable public education for all students and the future they deserve.”