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COVID-19: What we know about funding, privacy, leaves and the unknowns

Let me make something as clear as possible: opening schools in the midst of a raging pandemic is a very bad idea. It is bad for the safety of the employees, and it is bad for the safety of the students and their families. The obvious question: why is our […]

SC/TA endorses Karen Rose, Eric Robinson

The Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association endorses: • Karen Rose for Sarasota County School Board District 2: “We need an educator like Karen on the School Board. Karen was a great teacher, principal and Director of Middle Schools. She started our Classrooms of Tomorrow in middle schools that earned some of the […]

Lakeview Elementary students receive books to celebrate Kindness

Lakeview Elementary students received 650 books to help celebrate World Kindness Day, and to encourage more reading among children. The books, provided by Bradenton’s Kind Cotton, included “The Bad Seed,” a beautiful story of self love, perseverance, and kindness. Teachers throughout the school also led extension activities to reinforce the […]

Our loss: RIP, Dee White

Dee White, Member Services Representative, is remembered. The SC/TA staff thanks all of you for the expressions of sympathy expressed for the loss of our colleague and friend, Dee White. As many of you know, Dee was tough. What you may not know is her funny side and sense of […]

Bipartisan Support for Retiring Teachers

With our statewide shortage of teachers has come a shortage of substitutes. And our Legislature is doing all it can to discourage retiring teachers from becoming the substitutes we need. For example, our state requires retired teachers to wait a year before they can return to the classroom part-time and […]