Spreading the Good News
KNEA Delegates Head to Nation's Capital for 2004 NEA Annual
Meeting
More than 170 teachers and education
support professionals from Kansas are in Washington, D.C., for
the 2004 National Education Association (NEA) Annual Meeting. With
the buzz of election-year politics serving as a backdrop, delegates
will come together to recommend a candidate for U.S. president.
NEA members will also rally around efforts to fix and fund the so-called
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
These and other issues will be tackled at NEA's
Representative Assembly (RA), the largest democratic, deliberative
body in the world. The elected delegates who set policy for
the NEA's 2.7 million members can anticipate a packed agenda. NEA's
push to make NCLB work better for educators and children is expected
to get a big boost as more than 9,000 delegates, just a stone's
throw from Capitol Hill, make their voices heard. The Kansas delegation
will join thousands of NEA members under the banner of "Team
NEA: Uniting the Nation for Great Public Schools."
A wide range of pre-convention meetings, conferences and forums,
ranging from curing the health care system to closing the student
achievement gap, will be held June 27-July 3. Over the next four
days, July 4-7, the RA delegates will debate vital issues impacting
public education and set Association policy and activities for the
year ahead.
Yet it won't be all business. Delegates will have a chance to share
the joy of reading with children from Washington-area schools during
NEA's Read Across America Read-In. This year's Read-In will celebrate
the diversity of America's children through books and stories that
build bridges and honor our nation's diverse heritage.
Other highlights:
- More than 250 NEA volunteers through the annual Outreach To Teach program
will paint, landscape, clean and make repairs to Longfield Elementary School
in nearby Forestville, Maryland.
- Experts will explore critical education issues, societal trends affecting
students and education employees, the latest educational research and more
at the 19th Annual Joint Conference on Concerns of Minorities and Women.
- At the Symposium on Critical Issues for Educators, academics, labor specialists
and consumer advocates will address the health care crisis facing the education
community. Also, Ronald Ferguson of Harvard University's Kennedy School of
Government will discuss policies and practices needed to close the student
achievement gap.
- Thirteen winners, many of them educators, will be honored at
the 38th Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards Dinner. The
annual awards commemorate the 1966 merger of NEA and the American
Teachers Association-an historic African-American professional
organization-and celebrate our multicultural roots.
Click for details about
the NEA's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly.
Kansas NEA members attending the 2004 NEA Representative
Assembly
(Note: Some members may teach in a different district than what is listed)
Andover - Tonya Henning , John Hope
Arkansas City - Cathy Evans, Deborah Hargrove
Atchison - Michelle Lang
Bartlett - Linda Lynn
Bonner Springs - Gracie Jarrett
Brookville - Amber Fouard
Burlingame - Mary Masters
Carbondale - Joe Taylor
Chanute - Dennis Peters
Chapman - Debra Stevens
Cherryvale - Jo Neuburger
Cimarron - Deena Clark
Concordia - Everett Ford, Glorianna Ford
Council Grove - Rita Buchanan, Karen McGettrick
Derby - Janet Jarvis-Unruh, James Starke
Desoto - Janice Wilcox
Dwight - Jean Johnson
El Dorado - Jeanne Evans
Emporia - Barbara Fowler, Jeline Harclerode
Fowler - Becky Newlin
Frontenac - Debby Baima, Debbie Restivo
Garden City - Dalana Billinger, Roni Knight
Garnett - Alvin Peters
Goddard - Tammi Joseph
Great Bend - Judy Johnson
Hays - Kathy Rome
Haysville - Carolyn Brown
Hiawatha - Karen Benson
Hoxie - Mona Coupal
Humboldt - Glenda Bruner, Nancy Mcendree
Hutchinson - Jennalee Boggs, Mary Coplen, Debi Ellis, Andrea Ewert, Mark
Farr, Mike Wilson, Sherri Yourdon
Iola - Laura Caillouet
Kansas City - Sandra Butler, Virginia Cook, Marcia Hayes, Linda
Hollinshed, Pat Lewis, Robert Martinez, Dr Robert Murphy, Larry Spotts, Captola
Taylor-Harris
Lacygne - Dian Dotts
Lakin - Mildred DeKeyser, Peggy McGlynn, Tim McGlynn, Jan Schiffelbein
Lansing - Brian Schwanz, Sherri Schwanz
Lawrence - Debra Engstrom, Alan Gyles, Kathy Gyles, Christine O'Connor,
Chris Self, Bob Thesman, Cynthia Williams
Leavenworth - David Santee
Leawood - Ramona Weigel
Lincoln - Stephanie Svaty
Ludell - Bernadine Samson
Maize - Tricia Nicks
Manhattan - Jaime Armendariz, Beth Bergsten, Cynthia Corn, Kristy Hartman,
Ron Johnson, Janet Stramel
Mclouth - Jo Dennett
Melvern - George Alexander
Merriam - Marilyn Miller
Milford - Linda Brungardt, Tom Brungardt
Olathe - Gary Glenn, Ruth Henderson, Carolyn Hill-Demory, Shawn Kovacik,
Marsha Lytle, Kathy Meyer, Judy Rapp, Connie Welch
Oskaloosa - Nancy Landis
Ottawa - Marna Riddle, Chuck Tilman
Overland Park - Linda Brecheisen-Pribyl, Jim Brockway, Stanley
Coons, Jody Drake, Amy Loveland, Gregory A White
Paola - Betty Morgan, Jana Wilkerson
Peabody - Dorothy Rucker
Pittisburg - Dr Donia Gobar Daniel, Khamis Siam, Sherry Turnbull
Plainville - Jessie Gier
Pratt - Terry Jochems, Jane Melroy
Quenemo - Andy Stinebaugh
Richmond - Peggy Beach
Russell - Nancy Aspegren, Alice Axelson
Salina - Janet Fisher, Trudy Hiatt, Christal Lantz, Cheryl Mickey
Scranton - Jeannie Schnellbacher
Seneca - David Clements
Shawnee - Lisa Elliott
Shawnee Mission - Linda Chenault, Mary Ann Ciochon, David Miller
Jr, Rodney Siegele, Sheryl Siegele, Frank Strada, Marleen Watts
Spearville - Melissa Warner
Stilwell - Pat Anderson, Jill Baith
Superior - Don Wiest
Tonganoxie - Brenda Shaw
Topeka - Christine Huntsman, Sharon Kailey, Christy Levings, Trayce McKinley,
Jenny Prichard, Pam Slack, Annie Tietze, Dr Blake West
Udall - Kimberly Howard, Sharon Howard
Valley Center - Wilma Niemann
Wakarusa - Karen Godfrey
Wichita - Donna Adams-Zimmerman, Tonya Allen, Paul Babich, Flora Bishop,
Verlean Brown, Heather Bruce, Cori Capper, David Clark Jr, Shirley Fitzpatrick,
Barbara Fuller, Craig Gray, Gena Helm, Jennifer James, Connie Johnson, Larry
Landwehr, Judy Loganbill, Randall Mousley, Scott Pittman, Clinton Shipley, Fred
Swafford, Pam Taverner, Greg White, Curtis Wilson
Winfield -Fran Raines
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