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		<title>Innovative Schools Already Exist Right Here in Kent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cindy Prescott, KEA Vice President, and Shirley Hickey, past KEA President and current KELA (Kent Educators for Legislative Accountability) Committee Chair, have teamed up to talk about innovative schools that already exist within the Kent School District: Here in the Kent School District we have innovation all around us. Even as employees who knew about options [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=720&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charters Now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connie Compton, KEA President, has some thoughts on Charter schools: Our legislators and their constituents need to focus their energy and address the real problem in education in our state. Putting an issue on the table that Washington voters have already rejected three times distracts needed energy from solving the real problem. Washington State has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=716&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KEA Recommends School Board Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KEA Recommends Candidates for Kent School Director Positions: Larry Sims, Pos. 1 YES Open minded.  Willing to keep communication open.  Understands the need for priority in budget in the right place—class size.  Wants to know where the money is allocated.  Is aware about how much weight is applied to standardized testing. Karen DeBruler, Pos. 2 YES Understands issues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=707&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Day the Music Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comes to us from Laura Kexel, an Orchestra teacher in Kent and was published originally in the League of Education Voters Blog, edCored, as “The day the music died.”  (http://www.educationvoters.org/2011/10/06/edcored-the-day-the-music-died/)  Laura has given her permission to reprint her thoughts here. I am an itinerant orchestra teacher. I am currently assigned to eight elementary schools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=702&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes You Gotta Stand Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Michael Kerstetter and I am the Secretary Treasurer of the KEA.  Last summer I had the opportunity to go to Washington, DC, for the Save Our Schools march.  I went because I could and because I felt it was the right thing to do.  This first thing I noticed was that there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=699&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KEA Bargaining Update September 2, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bargaining Team Goal:  To strengthen the KEA contract in the areas of working conditions, as well as compensation and benefits with the ultimate goal to improve teaching and learning for the students of the Kent School District.   A quorum of the membership of our association ratified a new contract at the general membership meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=695&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tentative Agreement</title>
		<link>http://kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/692/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bargaining team goal: To strengthen the KEA contract in the areas of working conditions, compensation, and benefits to improve teaching, and learning for the students of the Kent School District.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Your KEA Bargaining Team is pleased to announce a tentative agreement has been reached. We look forward to sharing the details with you at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=692&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because you asked&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people have wondered why you can&#8217;t have the details of the Tentative Agreement before the General Membership meeting on Tuesday, so I asked Connie Compton if she could craft an official response to that question.  Here it is: It is best practice in Bargaining a contract to present the details to membership in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=690&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TENTATIVE AGREEMENT!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TENTATIVE AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED!  COME TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT (8/24) TO HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND BE READY TO COME TO THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING ON AUG. 30 (5:00 PM AT KW) FOR RATIFICATION VOTE, DETAILS  AND DISCUSSION ! Filed under: Bargaining, Bargaining Support and Organization Team, Board Watch, Contract, KEA Member Actions, Members, School Board<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=686&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Update 8/18</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bargaining Team Goal: To strengthen the KEA contract                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        in the areas of working conditions, compensation and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              benefits in order to improve teaching, and learning for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            the students of the Kent School District. Bargaining continued today. Your KEA Bargaining Team                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    presented a package that encapsulated the issues in the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           last bargaining update. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7444891&amp;post=682&amp;subd=kenteducationassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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