perhaps she can post a Give the NEA...A Chance...Video..om youtube!!!
Posted on 07/06/2014 9:29:08 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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She has a hard row to hoe. I don't know anything about her, but if someone doesn't bring common sense to unionists it will get worst for them.
Lily Eskelsen García, an elementary teacher from Utah, is Vice President of the National Education Association. She is one of the highest-ranking labor leaders in the country and one of its most influential Hispanic educators.
Lily was president of the Utah State Retirement System, only the second woman to ever be elected to the position; president of the Children at Risk Foundation; and was a member of the White House Strategy Session on Improving Hispanic Education.
She often works with coalitions to engage the public in the political process, and she herself was the first Hispanic to run for Congress in her state, raising almost $1 million and taking 45 percent of the vote against the incumbent.
She has been featured on MSNBC and CNN en Español.
She believes that no matter how students arrive, and no matter what their learning conditions, their home conditions or their health conditions, that educators have the sacred duty to be professionals and to care for the whole child.
http://lilysblackboard.org/about/
Support the DREAMERS
common sense would disallow her pet project... Common Core ...thats for sure.
#BringBackOurInfluence
I have been so busy lately I haven’t been able to keep up with the most recent supreme court ruling concerning unions. Could the ruling in anyway impact teacher’s unions? I sure hope so. The democrats will have to find another way to extort campaign funds.
A collectivist is still a collectivist, even if female and cute by Latrino standards.
May G*d rot her and the collectivists she represents.
In 1998 she attempted to put her 20 years of experience working with small children to practical use by becoming her party’s nominee for the U.S. Congress.
Her advice has been published in Parenting magazine and she has been featured on MSNBC, CNN en Español and as the noble opposition on Fox & Friends.
In 2000, she served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s White House Strategy Session on Improving Hispanic Education, and in 2011, President Obama named her a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
Eskelsen García is a national leader among Hispanic educators; she addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Public Policy Conference in September 2008.
Her union leadership has included writing protest songs, including one about the No Child Left Behind Act. As vice president, she has been part of NEA’s recent emphasis on working with the American labor movement; she appeared in Washington, D.C. on December 10, 2009, with labor leaders from the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO to speak out against taxing health-care benefits, where she said, “We should tax the millionaires, not teachers and bus drivers.
Abolish it
One of my best friends, a teacher of 15 years, submitted her resignation because of Common Core. She doesn’t even know what she’ll do next, she just knew she couldn’t do THAT.
She is not alone. This country is being wrecked.
Amen and Amen!
Eskelsen García brought the message into her meeting with students, drawing the connection between union membership and education and explaining how a national union of 3 million members finds its power in grass-roots organizing. “The union creates a circle of influence to achieve the education goals our members want,” she said.
“There are those motivated by greed and fear,” said Eskelsen García, describing interests that advocate putting colleges and universities in private hands and shrinking public funding for higher education. “At the NEA, we believe the business of education is to open students’ minds.”
http://www.massteacher.org/news/archive/2013/eskelsen_umass.aspx
It’s a bitch when you work so hard to get to the top and find out Obama is president.
Provided by us taxpayers of course. Nothing but the best. There is nothing funny about this epic disaster, but your "Latrino" typo did make me laugh.
Eskelsen García: We Are Fearless and We Will Not Be Silent
NEA president-elect Lily Eskelsen García, after praising those who have supported and worked in concert with her, concluded NEA’s 152nd Annual Meeting with a strong message to those “who don’t know what they’re talking about”: We will not be silent
“We,” of course, refers to the three million educators who know what’s best for students, learning, and the teaching profession.
“We know what is at stake and it is why we are who we are. It is why we are fearless and why we will not be silent when people who for their own profit and political posture subvert words like ‘reform’ or ‘accountability.’”
The thousands of delegates who filled the Denver convention center also got a taste of Eskelsen García’s grit when she reflected on the 1992 presidential campaign of the then-candidate Gov. Bill Clinton whose slogan made headlines: It’s the Economy, Stupid.
“For us, one thing is clear, before anything is going to get better: It’s the Testing, Stupid. Better yet, it’s the stupid testing,” she said, referring to the “phony” accountability system that has hurt students and demeaned the teaching profession.
Becky Pringle, a middle school physical science teacher from Harrisburg, Pa., was elected as NEA vice president, making her now one of the highest-ranking African-American female leaders in the labor movement.
Pringle served since 2008 as NEA secretary-treasurer, where she oversaw the fiscal integrity of the organization while advocating on professional issues important to educators and students, as well as issues of equity in education, diversity in the classroom, and human and civil rights.
“As vice president of the nation’s largest union of educators, I will work to ensure that NEA lives up to its rich history and legacy of human and civil rights, which is the foundation for realizing a great public school for every student.”
Rounding out the top three NEA leadership positions and making NEA the first major union to be led by three women of color, Princess Moss was elected secretary-treasurer. Her responsibilities will include overseeing the multimillion dollar budget and fiscal integrity of the organization.
NEA’s delegates have elected some extraordinary leaders who will continue to push for equity in education and carry on the organization’s commitment to student-centered union leadership and our commitment to social justice,” said outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, who leaves the term-limited post after six years.
http://neatoday.org/2014/07/06/eskelsen-garcia-we-are-fearless-and-we-will-not-be-silent/
Teachers Union VP: Gun Rights Supporters “Are Going to Hell”
Kyle Olson | Jun 26, 2013
NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen Garcia even believes she looked into their souls and determined that NRA leaders and supporters “are going to hell.”
“I’m not an ordained minister, I’m not a theologian, but these guys are going to hell,” she said at the annual Netroots Nation conference last week, according to Mercury News.
“We have to make those senators as frightened of us as they are of the gun lobby,” she reportedly said. “Shame on us if we give one inch to the gun lobby. They got where they are because they never give up. ... Now the movement is us; we are the ones we were waiting for.”
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