Rucker will attend national NEA meeting
Dorothy Rucker, a communications teacher at Peabody-Burns High School, will attend the 2004 National Education Association (NEA) annual meeting.
Rucker will join more than 170 teachers and education support professionals from Kansas July 4-7 in Washington, D.C.
With the buzz of election-year politics as a backdrop, delegates will come together to recommend a candidate for U.S. president. NEA members also will rally around efforts to fix the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.
These and other issues will be tackled durng the NEA's Representative Assembly (RA), the largest democratic, deliberative body in the world.
Elected delegates who set policy for NEA's 2.7 million members can anticipate a packed agenda. NEA's push to make NCLB work better for educators and children is expected to get a big boost as more than 9,000 delegates make their voices heard. The Kansas delegation will join thousands of NEA members under the banner of "Team NEA: Uniting the Nation for Great Public Schools."
Before the convention, more than 250 NEA volunteers will paint, landscape, clean, and make repairs to Longfield Elementary School in nearby Forestville, Md., through the annual "Outreach to Teach" program.
During the convention, RA delegates will debate vital issues impacting public education and set association policy and activities for the coming year. Also, delegates will have a chance to share the joy of reading with children from Washington-area schools during NEA's Read Across America Read-In. This year's Read-In will celebrate the diversity of America's children through books and stories that build bridges and honor our nation's diverse heritage.
