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OhioSchools
april 2009
A PUBLICATION Of The OhIO eDUCATION ASSOCIATION
You want to ask,
‘Where’s the support?
Where do you go?’
We’ve never not worked,
never been out of work.
Do we up and move?
Who’s going to buy the
house? If we move to
Charleston and, in two
years, the company
there says, ‘We don’t
have any more work,’
what then?
Wilmington teacher BarB
Byrne on the effects of the
recession on her family
(see story page 14)
Wilmington:
Tough lessons in hard times p14
OEA prepares for 2009
Leadership Conference p20
09-ST-100 Home & Auto Ohio 7x9.5” PDFx1a (For April 2009)
Discounted auto insurance for NEA members.
Shaping young minds has its rewards.
Experience proves that educ
OhioSchools
09-ST-100 Home & Auto Ohio 7x9.5” PDFx1a (For Ap
COVER STORY 14 Wilmington: Tough les
PRESIDENT’S message Sustaining our students, our
NOTEbOOk federal aid is on the way OhIO PUBLIC eD
The legislative process for producing the O
Members focus on Ohio budget bill at OeA educator
ExTRA creDit National Poetry month celebration I
There is an old saying that the course of civiliz
MAkING the graDe For a special radio
OeA on the Web fIND MANY Of TheSe STORIeS AND feA
fEATuRE The magic of words
A round Ohio, students, their
At one of the many other events taking plac
Central OEa/NEa reaches out to readers On March 1
COvER story Wilmington: Tough lessons in hard
“I think that for some of them, school is a
The Byrne’s oldest daughter Brooke, a gradu
Ohio Schools series to focus on the personal and
Protecting our priorities IN A TIMe Of eCONOMIC U
The State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) board
Conference Timeline Registration begins 7:30 a.m.
PROGRAM SeLeCTION: n Participants may select firs
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING This Bargaining Program off
POLITICAL ADVOCACY Dramatic changes to public edu
listening, learning, leading: keys to empowering
ASSOCIATION OeA Board of Directors actions A t i
OEa Spring 2009 representative assembly scheduled
Michael Jordan (Bath) Candidate for NEA Director
Fifteenth annual OEa awards Banquet fRIDAY, MAY 8
05-ST-115 7x9.5 Alamo Ohio PDFX1a (Ap
OhioSchools 3Protect your pension and secu