Has Moved Their Office To Our Present Location To Better Serve Our Members. We Hope To See All Our Members At Our New Location: The Ysleta Teachers Association 10940 Ben Crenshaw, Suite A El Paso, Texas 79935 (915) 778-8222
All area school districts are back to school and everyone from teachers to students to support staff and administration, is buzz ‘in around, making sure school starts off without a hitch. (It’s a dream, it never happens.) Summer schedules are gone and have changed; early to bed and early alarm clocks ringing, “GET UP!” For [...]
As the President of the Ysleta Teachers Association, I am proud to be in a district that is one of the top five finalists’ for the Broad Prize for Urban Education. This is a great honor and we have our fingers crossed that this is the year Ysleta brings home the prize. Yes, it is [...]
Meet Arlinda Valencia, the newly elected President of the Ysleta Teachers Association. Arlinda Valencia, is no stranger to the position. She was also president from 1999 – 2001. Since her term in 2001, she has held a position on the YTA board. She has mentored and given support to presidents who succeeded her term. When [...]
Noel Candelaria, President of YTA was elected to be the next Vice President of the Texas State Teachers Association. This is the second highest position in the TSTA organization, which was founded 132 years ago. This is history making, no one from El Paso has ever held this high of an office in the state [...]
The Texas Comptroller accidentally posted the personal information of about 3.5 million Texans. Among those affected are members of the Teacher Retirement System, Texas Workforce Commission and Employees Retirement System of Texas. The information has been open to the public for about a year now. The information, which was made public, included birth dates and [...]
This session is for all hourly at-will employees (Aides, Clerks, Maintenance, Custodians, Techs, Security Guards, Food Service).
If you are a teacher, librarian, counselor, administrator, instructional specialist, or any contract employee in YISD, this session is for you.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford In the recent state of the Union, President Obama stated that “In South Korea, teachers are known as “nation builders.” Here in America, it’s time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect”. We [...]
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU! On Wednesday, January 19, the School Board will consider and vote to approve a policy update that will prohibit teachers and employees from using their personal computers in the district and will authorize administration to seize personal data storage devices form employees such as USB drives and data-imaging devices without [...]
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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 [...]
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