We are conducting our election for the 2010 TSTA House of Delegates (HoD) Convention to be held April 16th-18th in San Marcos, TX.
You will need to enter the last four digits of your Social Security number to verify membership and eligibility to vote. Ballots without verification will be invalid. To participate in the first online election, simply click on the link below to cast your vote.
Tha ballot will be available online thru February 12, 2010. If you prefer to cast your ballot in person, you may do so at our next Campus Leader meeting to be held at Vista Hills Country Club on February 9th from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The YTA office will also be available from 2:00 – 6:00 p.m., Monday – Friday during the election period.
The upcoming elections are critical to the future of public education and how educational employees are treated.
If you are not registered, have moved recently or did not get a new voter registration card in the last year, then you need to fill out a voter registration card and get it in the mail prior to Monday, February 1, 2010 to take part in the March 2nd primary election this year.
January 27, 2010 — Get creative and get competitive. That’s the message President Barack Obama delivered to the nation’s public schools in tonight’s State of the Union address, as he called for an additional $4 billion for school funding — including $1.35 billion for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Echoing NEA’s push for job creation, Obama also demanded that Congress immediately pass legislation that would do just that to boost the economy. “The President made it very clear tonight that he refuses to sacrifice the education opportunities available to Americans as a way of digging out of our economic crisis,” NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said.
When YISD Voted to Increase Health Insurance Cost for Employees, who was there to speak out against it and for your interests?
The Ysleta Teacher Association
From the El Paso Times
“Noel Candelaria, the president of the Ysleta Teachers Association, was one of two teachers who spoke against the plan.
Board President Marty Reyes allowed Candelaria to speak only after he stood up and said that he had requested time in an e-mail last week. She first gave him two minutes until he protested that everyone else was allowed three minutes.
“I think our voices were heard, but they weren’t taken into consideration,” Candelaria said. “They had their minds made up.”
Candelaria maintained that the district should have contributed more. He said increases should have been phased in over two years to allow hourly employees who make less than $20,000 a year more time to adjust.
Bob Ward, the school board’s vice president, said that hourly employees in that category could seek state help through initiatives like the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”
Say What?
Why is YISD trying to shift their responsibility to state of Texas? The board believes we should tell our employees to sign up for CHIP because YISD refuses to take care of our own.
Outrageous!
This has to stop.
It is time for every employee to belong to a single organization and for that organization to exclusively speak for all the employees in YISD.
It’s time to come together. Join us and together we will change YISD.
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