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September 21, 2007
| Lafourche Parish Association of Educators calendar (so far) |
| OKAY FOLKS, here is our calendar (tentative of course) but you'll all be notified if we have to change any of the dates.We have been meeting on the second Wednesday of the month, but a change has been requested and approved at the last AR Meeting held. The new meeting dates will be changed to the second Thursday of the month to assure everyone a chance to attend the School board meetings which are held on Wednesdays. Wendy Percle will work to faithfully send out flyers to let everyone know that we are now meeting at Politz's Restaurant in Thibodaux.That is located off of Highway1/St.Mary's Street. It's where we met for a long time in the past.The folks who attend the meetings regularly missed , so we moved back. The foods pretty good too! Come on out to the meeting and help make the decisions that affect you. Any changes will be made as they come up and you will be notified here. |
| Lafourche Parish's president has been selected to serve the NEA. |
| The NEA has selected Ray Barrios to serve on the Employee Advocacy Committee. Ray will attend meetings in Washington D.C. when needed to discuss employee concerns nation-wide. Ray hopes to learn how to best help employees here as well. Ray will serve on this committee for a term of three years, but it will not affect his duties as president of the LPAE. |
| Ray Barrios has been elected to the LAE Executive Committee. |
| The LAE Board of Directors has elected Ray Barrios to serve as a member of the Executive Committee for the state's premier education association the Louisiana Association of Educators. Ray has accepted the position and responsibilties that go with it.
Ray also serves a three year term on the LAE's FTCP committee and is presently serving out the remainder of his three year term as member of the Board of Directors for the LAE representing District 6 Seat B. Ray's term of office for this position will be up soon, but he will run for the position again. He has represented the 13 parishes within the district well and we hope his run is successful. When the time comes, please vote for Ray to continue to serve District 6 again.
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| The law on your side ! I am not giving up on this topic and neither should you! |
| According to a statute brought to my attention recently, the minimum amount of planning time any teacher may have is 45 minutes. Note that this is the minimum and anything other than that is at the discretion of the individual principals within your school. It is also important to note that according to the same statute (one line down folks) the minimum amount of time for the lunch period is 30 minutes unincumbered, duty free, with no extension of the work day allowed. Interesting isn't it? No school that I know of had been getting 30 minutes for their lunch period. Many, if not all, of the elementary schools have no lunch period at all unless it is incumbered with duty. Curious? Email me for the exact number of the statute that is being used to keep some of us at the minimum required time for our planning period and also shows that Lafourche Parsih is violating the rest of the same statute concerning lunch periods. Please email your question to either rbarrios@mobiletel.com or the email account found in the website. |
| A big thanks goes out to Wendy Percle and Jane Moffit. |
| Being president of this local is a time consuming position and could not be accomplished without the help of Wendy Percle and Jane Moffit. These two members tirelessly do everything in their power to make sure that things get done on time. Without them your president would be lost. Thanks ladies for all you do. There is always room to help run this aassociation and it would be appreciated greatly if other members gat involved like these two have. Even a little help is good. What can you do to help? Let Ray know if you can offer a little of your time and talent to help get things done. He can be contacted at rbarrios@hughes.net |
| We will need to start accepting nominations for officers of our own association soon. |
| Soon the positions of President, Vice President (now vacate), Secretary and Treasuror will be open once more. These honorable positions come with a great deal of responsibility. The officers in this organization give up time and energy to assure that the association runs as smoothly as possible and that the membership is represented everywhere needed. The position do have their own job descriptions to serve as a guideline of what each officer is expected to do, but other duties my need to be added as needed.
If you feel you have the desire and the time to devote to serving the membership and furthering the goals of the local association, please step up and run for a position.All positions serve at the will of the membership.
Please email either Evelyn Loftin, Jane Moffett, or Ray Barrios if you want to nominate anyone for any position. Nominations will also be accepted at the next A R Meeting. All members are invited to attend any and all AR Meetings throughout the year.This is normally where the voting takes place. Please come be a part of the process. |
| Loftin will remain in her role as LAE Board member! |
| Congratulations go out to Evelyn Loftin who was recently unapposed in her run for the board seat she presently holds. Evelyn Loftin will service was stellar and she will continue to serve,even if she no longer works in Lafourche. Evelyn has taken a position in Jefferson Parish. |
| Lafourche Parish has lost its position for being first in membership ! |
| Lafourche Parish Association of Educators has garnered the top honors in the entire state for membership increases twice in the last six years, but to date has lost the honor to East Baton Rouge who posted a three digit increase. Our trophy, which once honored LPAE, will be given to EBR President,Carol White by Ray Barrios at the earliest date possible. Here in Lafourche we plan to work toward increasing membership again this year. Come join a professional Education Organization, come join the LPAE!
Be a part of something!Help us to get our trophy back! |
| We'd like to survey our membership! |
| We want to create a survey that we can put online for members to try to determine the problems that most impact teachers, ESP's, and students in our schools. Help create this survey and you'll know that the problems that affect you will be addressed as well. |
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