Herricks Teachers' Association

Herricks Community Fund - 18th Annual Dinner Dance

Meetings & Events for Jan. 6 -10, 2014

Happy New Year! Hope you had a warm and safe long weekend.

Below is a list of meetings for this week.

Meetings and Events for Jan. 6 - Jan. 10, 2014

Mon., Jan. 6:

*Music Boosters Meeting - 7:30 p.m. H.S.

Tues., Jan. 7:

*HTA Executive Council 3:15 p.m. C.C. Room 111

Wed., Jan 8:

*PTA District Council - 7:45 p.m. C.C.

Thurs., Jan. 9:

*BOE Meeting - 6:45 p.m. H.S.

In support,

Nidya Degliomini

President

Herricks Teachers' Association

Inequality for All

The EWTA (East Williston Teachers' Association) will be hosting a professional development opportunity for their members and would like to extend it to our membership as well.

On January 27th, 2014 from 4 to 7 the EWTA will be offering a 3 hour workshop that includes viewing and discussing the film Inequality For All. The screening and discussion will take place at The Wheatley School, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, NY 11596.

The trailer for the film can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REdcxfie3M

If you would like to join,

RSVP to Meryl Fordin runmbf@yahoo.com

A hard copy of the flyer

Week's Meetings & Events Dec. 16 - Dec. 20, 2013

Meetings and Events for Dec. 16 - Dec. 20, 2013

Mon., Dec. 16:

*PNC Meeting - Teaching Assistants - 3 p.m. C.C. Room 111

Tues., Dec. 17:

*HTA Executive Council Meeting - 3:15 C.C. Room 111

*PNC Meeting - 3:40 C.C. Room 111

*HTA Governing Board 4:00 C.C. Room 208

Wed., Dec. 18:

*Community Fund Meeting - 7:30 C.C.

Update on BOE Meeting Dec. 12, 2013

Here is a synopsis of the Board of Education Meeting on Dec. 12, 2013:

*Presentation on Shelter Rock Academy by Allison Barshak

*Discussion of InBloom. District parents set up meeting with Senator Martins to discuss InBloom. Senator Martins understands and is working to address concerns. Need to get legislators to stop InBloom. NYC suing Commissioner King & SED for releasing personal info. Senator Flanagan said to be sponsoring a bill to address InBloom concerns.

Comments by BOE and attendees:

"SED is out of touch with what's going on in education."

"State

Moratorium Postcards

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks for wearing your blue HTA t-shirts on Tues., Dec. 9th, The National Day of Action. It was a huge success at Herricks as many people proudly wore their t-shirts. In fact, Bill Youngfert, an HTA retiree even wore blue in support on a flight from Germany! As we continue to work together to change the tides and have our legislators listen to us we will now focus on postcard writing.

Three different Moratorium Postcards have been sent to each building that are addressed to Governor Cuomo, Regent Tilles and Senator Flanagan (the Chairman of the NYS Senate Committee on