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May 2017 CTU-R President’s Message

May 2017 President’s Message

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Congratulations RHEA Retirees!

RHEA would like to congratulate the following members on their upcoming retirement. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to Rush-Henrietta students!

Nancy Beikirch
Patricia Burns-Skomsky
Caroline Harrington
Colleen McCarthy-White
Mary Oakes
Sue Sanbury
Carol Stevenson
Mary Laio
Rich Thompson

1) Calendar Update - On Friday, May 26^th at 2 p.m. the NPS provided us with a draft of SY17/18 Calendar. NTU President John M. Abeigon and the NTU Negotiations Team had numerous concerns about the calendar. We shared those concerns on Tuesday morning in a meeting with NPS senior staff.

Bow, NH – June 2, 2017

Thursday, June 1, was a gorgeous day, easily the best weather we have had here in NH for some time. Clear skies by afternoon, warming temperatures, and no rain! In Representatives Hall in the NH State House, however, it proved to be a much drearier and depressing day, although not terribly surprising. On the final day to act on Senate bills, the Republican majority flexed their muscle and demonstrated anew that elections matter. Remember this, when your friends and co-workers tell you next year they are not bothering to vote because “it just doesn’t matter.” It does, and yesterday’s votes in the House prove it.

This will be a very brief bulletin since neither the Senate or House were in session this past week. Having said that, there was activity.

The Senate has now crafted and released its proposed State budget for the 2017-19 biennium. In an effort to win over some of the extreme right-wing Republicans whose votes scuttled the House version of the budget, Senate Republicans on the Finance Committee adopted very conservative revenue estimates as a means of justifying leaving many programs and initiatives unfunded or underfunded. Full funding of all-day kindergarten has been removed from the budget, and funding for battling the opioid crisis remains inadequate. Yet despite the supposed financial stringencies, the majority in the Senate have found monies to pay for a spokesperson for the Dept. of Education at an annual $83,500 salary (to speak at the behest of Commissioner Edelblut) and also to increase the funding for charter schools (as opposed to the traditional public schools which the vast majority of NH students attend).

Council of Baptist Pastors President Rev. Dee Dee Coleman and DFT President Ivy Bailey celebrated Teachers Appreciation Day during a special service held at Russell Street Baptist Church on May 30.