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Take Action: Advocate for Educators
Tallahassee politicians spend a lot of time talking about education, but precious little time talking to educators.
Take Action: Protect FRS!
The Florida Retirement System (FRS) is routinely found to be one of the healthiest and well-funded in the country. Despite this fact politicians continue to attack it.
Take Action: Email the Governor: Keep Students & Educators Safe in the Ongoing Pandemic
Though it seems the spread of the coronavirus through our community may be subsiding, the health and well-being of our students and educators is dependent upon the vigilance of every one of us. Even as we practice physical distancing and continue to wear masks, we know that more must be done to provide for the safest possible learning environment for EVERY student and public school employee.
Take Action: Pause High-Stakes Testing
Policy makers’ devotion to standardized testing and flawed measurements of learning gains under the guise of ‘accountability’ are stumbling blocks for high-quality instruction in a normal year. In the middle of a pandemic, such obsessions are no less than educational malpractice.
Election 2020: Endorsements and Recommendations
Your professional assciation and our affiliates make candidate endorsements utilizing research, local input and a democratic process. The endorsements are based upon education issues.
Candidate endorsements are based upon a commitment to our neighborhood public schools, colleges and universities, our students and to the people who work in public education.
How you vote is a personal decision. As an educator, exercising your right and responsibility to vote is paramount duty to your students and your community. When educators vote, students win!
HCTA Endorsements & Recommendations
Hernando County Commission, District 1 : Isaiah Haddon
Hernando School District Millage Election for Public School Students : SUPPORT
FEA Endorsements & Recommendations
NEA Endorsements & Recommendations
AFT Endorsements & Recommendations
Petition: Action Needed to Slow the Spread
Take action to reduce the spread of COVID-19 so we can return to school
Target: Governor Ron DeSantis
Florida's children must not return to school campuses until steps are taken to reduce the rate of community spread in Florida. The rate of infection is growing at an alarming rate yet little is being done to slow the spread and even less is being done to support safe return to our schools. We must demand our governor take all necessary steps to slow the infection rate in our state before our children return to brick and mortar schools.
Petition: Include Educators in Planning to Reopen Schools
The current members of the education subcommittee on reopening Florida is far too narrow.
Rally to FundOurFuture Commitment Survey
We know that funding our future is going to require a sustained commitment from elected leaders in Tallahassee. If investment in our public schools is not prioritized during this legislative session, we can expect that Florida will continue to remain in the bottom 10 nationwide in public education funding...and it will be our students who will suffer the continuing impacts of a growing teacher shortage. This January, we need to ensure that all eyes in Tallahassee are on Funding Our Future!
Red for Ed Wednesdays Return!
Red for Ed Wednesdays Return
(August 21, 2019) BROOKSVILLE, FL -- Hernando Classroom Teachers' Association is calling for all public education advocates to recommit to the Wear Red for Ed campaign through the 2019-2020 school year. Red for Ed is both a statewide and national effort to draw much needed attention to the funding crisis which is impacting classrooms across the country. Wearing red on Wednesdays throughout the year is a show of solidarity and a visible reminder of the ongoing struggle to appropriately fund public education.