To organize the educational employees of california into locals chartered by the american federation of teachers (the "AFT"), and to bring them into relations of mutual assistance and cooperation; to obtain for them ALL the rights and benefits to which they are entitled; to raise the standards of the educational profession and to secure conditions essential to the BEST professional service; to promote such democratization of the educational institutions as will enable them better to equip their students to take their places in the economic, social and political life of the community; to strive for equal educational opportunities for ALL and to initiate and support state legislation to benefit students and educational employees of the state of california.