The Advocatewww.surreyteachers.org Letter from the STA President Gioia Election Breda Issue 2017 Dear Colleague and Neighbour! Again I send you greetings from the Surrey STA Full-time Table Officers Teachers’ Association. We are reaching out to you again to encourage your full President - Gioia Breda
[email protected] participation in the provincial election. First Vice President - Laura Barker Our local has endorsed the NDP candidates, and has donated
[email protected] money to their campaigns. We’ve already seen what “the wild Second Vice President - Matt Westphal
[email protected] west of political campaign financing” truly means, as we have Health & Safety Officer - been bombarded with advertising even before the writ was Kristine Olsen th
[email protected] dropped on April 11 . Government ads have been promising many things but what they have not promised is a fully-funded Grievance Officer - Sue Heuman
[email protected] public education system. To ensure that our concerns about our Grievance Officer - Joanna Cerazy students are an election issue, the STA has commissioned bill-
[email protected] board, social media and radio ads. We hope they remind voters Pro-D Issues Officer - Anne McNamee about what our students need. I see this time as an opportunity
[email protected] to shamelessly promote the cause of teachers and public edu- General Inquiries cation to absolutely everyone I meet or talk to. It is high time
[email protected] 604-594-5353 that we elect a government that shows they believe in public education. Other Executive Members: We also hope that you have received our message encouraging Local Representatives to the BCTF: Jatinder Bir teachers to vote in the early polls.