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The Nebraska State Education Association March 2014 The Voice The Nebraska State Education Association March 2014 FEBRUARY 2016 | THE VOICE | PAGE 1 Planning Period Upcoming Assignments Celebrate! Take a Leadership Position Feb. 5 n What: Association members Read on March 2! will vote beginning in March to fill celebrate. For instance: nearly three dozen vacancies on Read Across America n six NSEA district boards and on Get the latest info: Go to the the NSEA Board of Directors. An Will be Observed Read Across America website to find a emphasis again this year encourges wide variety of information, including minority members to seek office. Nationwide March 2 how to create a reading event, activ- It takes time, but the rewards are It has been 19 years now, and the ity ideas, downloadable information many. WIll you file? NEA-founded Read Across America for parents, as well as the pledge to n Details: The filing period clos- program is stronger than ever! participate this year! Items and mate- es o Feb. 5. Go to the NSEA website Another edition of the event, which rials are updated frequently, so please to see a list of vacancies and to file. celebrates Dr. Seuss creator Theodor check back often. That site is at: n Celebration day items: The NEA nsea.org Geisel’s birthday, will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 2. Read Across America website pro- Start now to Plan for RAA Will you celebrate? Are your plans vides the Read Across America song, March 2 under way? Could you use some help oath and poem, as well as NEA’s Dec- n What: Celebrate the birthday and some ideas? laration of Reading Independence. of Dr. Seuss on NEA’s Read Across Fortunately, the National Educa- n Find the poster! Download and America Day, Wednesday, March 2. tion Association has ideas and materi- print the 2016 Read Across Ameri- Start now for a well-planned event. als you can use to build a celebration ca Day Poster from the NEA Read n Details: NEA provides plenty in your classroom or school. Across America website. of materials to make your event a Here’s how it works: Read Across n Invite the media: Why not let the success. See the story on this page America asks every child in every world know about your celebration – or to learn more go to this site: and the importance of literacy? The nea.org/grants/plan-a-reading-event community to celebrate the love of reading. The program also supports NEA Read Across America website The Celebration Begins! NEA members, parents, caregivers, has a series of tips, ideas and sample April 15-16 and children with the resources and news releases and letters to the editor n What: NSEA Delegate As- activities they need to keep reading you can use to get your project noticed sembly 2016 will kick off the Asso- fun throughout the year. by local newspaper, radio stations and ciation’s 150th anniversary celebra- The Seussian event frequently television station reporters. Your stu- tion. NSEA was founded in 1867 in opens a full week of reading events dents will get some coverage and your Brownville. and activities! In order to help your school district will shine! n Details: Delegate Assembly event be a grand and wonderful suc- For more details, visit the Read will be held in Lincoln on April 15- Across America website at: 16. Learn how you can become a cess, NEA has put together a package delegate on Page 13. of items and ideas online to help you nea.org/readacross Ashland-Greenwood Education Association’s Diane Starns exercises on a regular Cover basis at a local gym, and has found that the Educators Health Alliance wellness Page Story: program is a great supplement to her regular workout regimen. For details, turn to 11 Executive Director Craig R. Christiansen tober, November, February, April and August. Published Assoc. Executive Director Neal Clayburn online in December, January, March and May. Director of Public Affairs Karen Kilgarin Assistant Comm. Director Al Koontz Payment of annual NSEA dues entitles Nebraska educa- THE tors to receive The Voice. Cost of producing 10 issues of NSEA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Voice each year is $3.41 per member. President Nancy Fulton, Wilber-Clatonia VOICE Vice President Jenni Benson, Lincoln Nebraska State Education Association Advertising rates available on request. Appearance of an NEA Director John Heineman, Lincoln advertisement in The Voice does not imply NSEA endorse- 605 S. 14th Street NEA Director Deb Gnuse, Grand Island Lincoln, NE 68508-2742 · www.nsea.org ment of the product advertised or views expressed. (402) 475-7611 · (800) 742-0047 Official publication of the Nebraska State Education As- Volume 69, No. 6 sociation, 605 South 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508-2742. Cited for excellence each year by ISSN Number: 1085-0783 Periodical postage paid at Lincoln, NE, and additional the State Education Editors, including USPS Number: 000-369 mailing offices. Postmaster: send address changes to The these past awards: Best Magazine, Voice, NSEA, 605 S. 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508-2742. Best News Story, Best Feature Story, Best Photograpy and Best Editorial Design. Great Public Schools For Every Child Published and mailed 6 times yearly in September, Oc- PAGE 2 | THE VOICE | FEBRUARY 2016 The President Kids, Roads and Budgets Three weeks into this session of the Nebraska public schools and higher ed institutions. Legislature, and one thing is clear: unless educators across the state – all of us at all What Does it Take? levels of the education family – raise our voices Meanwhile, the governor has announced a collectively, K-12 public schools, public colleges plan to raid the state’s rainy day fund of $150 and universities are going to take a beating. million to create a transportation infrastructure To his credit, York Superintendent Dr. Mike bank. Those dollars would go into a lock box, Lucas has jumped to the front of the fray with a if you will, and be used only for roads projects. commentary that has already appeared in a half- Roads, like schools, are an important core dozen or more newspapers across the state. Read function of government. However, roads get other it on Page 7. funding love from the state. First, the Highway Lucas is on the mark. But we must all step Trust Fund receives cash from the sales and use up to turn back the assault on publicly funded taxes on automobiles, trailers and semitrailers. NSEA President education. Three years ago, senators shaved off a quarter Nancy Fulton As Lucas points out, property tax – the main cent of the General Fund’s sales tax revenue source of revenue for Nebraska public schools – and dedicated the resulting $100 or so million is under attack. K-12 public schools are cast by per year to roads. Last year, senators added to some as the villain in the property tax debate. the roads coffers again by approving a phased in “ What those critics fail time and again to 6-cent per gallon gasoline tax hike, which will What exactly acknowledge – and what Lucas points out – is that eventually put the tax at 32 cents per gallon. despite an ever-increasing number of students The $150 million-in-a-lock-box plan is does it take for requiring more teachers, books, buildings and frustrating for this reason: Educators have been public schools cost, state aid to K-12 schools as a share of the asking policymakers for a dedicated source of state’s budget has been cut drastically in the past revenue – funding in a lock box – for public to become 15 years. Current calculations indicate state aid schools for nearly a decade. Last year, Lincoln a state for 2016-17 will increase by about $11 million Sen. Adam Morfeld introduced LB438, which from the current $973 million, a pittance when would dedicate online sales tax revenues to an funding spread among the 120 or so districts that receive education trust fund. LB438 did not advance state aid. Meanwhile, the initial budget plan put from committee last year. priority? forth by Gov. Ricketts would cut state aid by $8 It is curious that as some policymakers decry million, to about $965 million. the “underperformance” of public schools they have no inclination to give school funding ” Chipping Away a priority status. Instead, they rally around That is just the start of efforts to chip away at a “school choice” banner that would siphon funding public schools. funding from our public schools. Many proposals by policymakers – in their What exactly does it take for public schools haste to appease corporate profiteers and other to become a state funding priority? masters – would mercilessly cut away at the state’s General Fund. Proposed are a multitude of Solid Investment Needed schemes to fund private, parochial and corporate Again, roads deserve our attention. But Page schools through tax credits, vouchers and other so do our children. Today’s second grader is options. Dollars for those proposals would come tomorrow’s engineer, designing and planning 11 from the General Fund, which is the source of lifesaving and efficient roads for the future. That the aforementioned state aid to K-12 schools, as second-grader needs a solid investment in her well as the source of considerable funding for education to achieve that status. the state’s public colleges and universities. Every I’ll ask the question again: What exactly does it dollar taken from the General Fund for corporate take for public schools to be a state funding priority? charter schools and other private schemes is a Perhaps if we follow the lead of Dr.
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