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		<title>Why am I Politically Active?</title>
		<link>http://kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/why-am-i-politically-active/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why am I Politically Active? By Michael Kerstetter                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            KEA Secretary Treasurer I have always cared about politics.  I’m a child of the fifties and sixties and I took it seriously when our elected officials were declaring wars that I thought unnecessary while at the same time, they were breaking rules and laws established to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=731&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Politically Active Because I Care About Public Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reprinted from eChalk; A Biweekly Update from Mary Lindquist, WEA President) I watched every episode of West Wing. And Robert Redford&#8217;s The Candidate is one of my favorite movies. I even enjoyed The Election, an off-beat story about high-school ASB elections. In short, I am a political junkie. I know not everyone shares this affliction, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=728&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to a Senator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a letter sent by one of our KEA members to 30th Legislative District Senator Tracey J. Eide: Senator Tracey, So many things are wrong about the so called &#8220;education reform&#8221; efforts.  I am too saddened and troubled to express it all here.  The latest, allowing students to vote on their teachers is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenteducationassociation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=725&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=720&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=716&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=707&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=702&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=699&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=695&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tentative Agreement</title>
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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&#038;blog=7444891&#038;post=692&#038;subd=kenteducationassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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