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President of GAE on the road to promote new educational legislation
By Torey Jolley
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Educators President Essie
Stewart Johnson travelling
constantly is not an issue
when the end results
means better schools and
education for Georgia.
While visiting in Perry on
Oct. 19, Johnson agreed to
an inter
view with
The
Houston
Home
Journal.
She said
the rea
son for
her visit
was to
stress the
upcom-
JOHNSON
ing issues on education
which will be before the
Georgia General Assembly
soon.
The issues, said John
son, include legislation to
improve student learning
by encouraging creative
teaching methods to chal
lenge children while stress
ing high standards in stu
dent performance, creating
safe productive learning
environments for students
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and working environment
for public school employ
ees, and ensuring that
every child is taught by an
educator who can make the
bridge between expertise in
the subject matter and the
students’ background.
These issues are the
focus of the GAE “Reach
Up, Reach Out, Reach In"
initiative. The initiative
addresses student achieve
ment, safe schools, and
quality educators, respec
tively.
To accomplish this, GAE
has endorsed reducing
pupil/teacher ratio and
maximum class size to
1:15 in grades K-3; 1:18 in
grades 4-5; 1:20 in grades
6-8; and 1:25 in grades 9-
12. It also encourages
involving parents, educa
tors, and community lead
ers in the planning and
development of curriculum
decision: and funding
art,music, physical educa
tion. and foreign language
teachers at a ratio of 1:200
students (K-12).
The GAE believes
improving the quality of
educators by improving
funding for National Board
Certification, increasing
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salary supplements to 10
percent for teachers certi
fied by the NBC, and pro
viding a mentoring pro
gram encouraging certified
educators to mentor candi
dates.
Johnson said, “GAE
wants to stress the impor
tance of National Board
Certification, but we also
want the General Assem
bly to increase the Geor
gia’s average teacher
salary to surpass the
national average by
improving the base salary.
Johnson will be speak
ing at the Georgia Associa
tion of Educators meeting
Oct. 22-23 at the Macon
Centerplex.
In addition to Johnson,
three chairpersons for the
sub-committee on educa
tion will be there as well
listening to the concerns
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Public Notice
The Board of the
Houston County
Department of Family
and Children Services
will hold its regular
monthly Board Meeting
on October 21, 1999 at
7:30 p.m. at their office
located at
92 Cohen Walker Drive,
Warner Robins.
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