Maureen Reedy, who taught in the public schools of Ohio for 29 years, is running for the State Legislature.
I wrote a post about her in mid-July, but that was a long time ago. So it is time to remind you that she is well-qualified, she follows the money, and she intends to support our public schools in a state where the governor and the Legislature are hell-bent on privatization.
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Another great teacher candidate for state legislature is Collene Lamonte in Michigan’s 91st District, where for-profit schools are gaining a strong foot-hold. Collene will fight for public education.
Here’s an op-ed in my local paper about another teacher running for office, this time, a seat in the state legislature in NC:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/10/2403508/saunders-a-teachers-hands-on-lesson.html
He is running unaffiliated and got volunteers among students and parents to generate over 2,200 signatures so he could get on the ballot. Here’s his rationale for running:
“‘The cuts [to public schools] are already starting to impact my classroom,’ said Murphy, a social studies and Youth & Law teacher at Carnage Middle School in Raleigh. His classroom ‘is only cleaned once a week’ because the custodial staff has been cut. ‘There were Band-Aids and paper and trash on the floor. It was disgusting. That’s not an atmosphere conducive to learning. … I know the legislators on Jones Street have their offices cleaned every day.’”
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/10/2403508/saunders-a-teachers-hands-on-lesson.html#storylink=cpy
I am also a teacher in Oklahoma, who retired to run for the OK House of Representatives against an ALEC oriented incumbent legislator I spent 39 years in public school elementary classrooms with a passion for public education and had enough of the anti public education rhetoric and laws coming from the ruling party at our state capital. So I just jumped in, filing on the last day to file for office, retiring the day before school was out for the summer and have been walking from house to house, door to door ever since. My message to voters is that public education is too important to be a partisan issue. We all have to work together to save the public school educational opportunities for all our children. I may not win, but I will run again. As a grandmother I say, all grandchildren are too important to let people say that public education is an unnecessary big government expense. They are wrong!.
Hats off and best of luck to the educators running for office.
More teachers running for office. Karen Castor Dentel, is running in Florida’s House District 30. Karen is a teacher and the daughter of a well known authority on education and a former Florida state politician, Betty Castor. Karen’s district includes parts of Orange County and Seminole County in Central Florida. Seminole County is quite conservative yet Karen is doing very well against her opponent. Also, in Florida’s House District 50 Sean Ashby who is currently teaching High School is running and has a good chance of winning. HD 50 covers east Orange County and the northern part of Brevard County.