For Immediate Release:
Jan. 31, 2014

Contact:
Verdaillia Turner
(404) 315-0222

Atlanta Teachers Honored for Heroic Effort During Storm

Scores Stayed Overnight in Schools to Ensure Their Students’ Safety

ATLANTA--Whether they are digging into their own pockets to buy school supplies or making sure their students have enough to eat, teachers in Atlanta and throughout Georgia go the extra mile for the children they teach.  So it wasn’t surprising that during the recent storm, scores of teachers remained in schools overnight to ensure that stranded students were safe.

February is a Community month for Daily Bread Soup Kitchen. If you’re interested in helping out on any of the dates listed below, please contact Victoria at: victoria@towerpower.com

Mon  3, 10, 17, 24  /  Wed  5, 12, 19, 26  / Fri     4, 14, 21, 28

The pay raise the Governor announced for classified state workers has already begun to disappear from state budgets.  This week budget subcommittees at the state legislature began deleting the pay raise from appropriation bills.  So far employees at  the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health and Environment have seen their pay raises vanish. 

Is there a silver lining here?  Maybe. 

Dr. Bioteau on WJXT from UFF FSCJ on Vimeo.

The OTA is collecting new and gently used books in each building to be given out to the public at key events.  All books will be imprinted with a book plate message that reads:  A gift for you from Onteora Teachers Association. 

Over the summer the TC2DN (Teacher Center 2 Dissemination Network) realized that more people were needed to help share information offered by the technology committee. The MHTC is now looking for one person per district statewide to join the committee and become familiar with MHTC technology partnerships.  This committee does not meet but will have trainings on-line. (approx 20 hours, with possible hours or stipend through MLP).  Let’s not be one of the unrepresented districts. Anyone interested should send Deb Cook your name and contact information to be passed on to the committee ASAP.   dcook@onteora.k12.ny.us.

The Louisiana Federation of Teachers has endorsed a set of general principles that a number of public education stakeholders have pledged to honor in the upcoming legislative session.

“For the past six years, education reform has been defined by politicians, corporate profiteers and ideological extremists,” Federation President Steve Monaghan said. “The result has been an avalanche of unconstitutional laws, a raid on public education funds and baseless attacks on teachers in our public schools.

Op-ed by Stephanie Ly, AFT New Mexico President

1/25/2014

  This session brings opportunity to pass a fair teacher evaluation system and stop the obsession with standardized testing.