Dear Denver Teachers and DFT Members: As we end this school year and begin to plan for the 2007-2008 year, I would like to reflect on our successes and challenges. On the political front, AFT was successful in getting candidates friendly to public education elected to the State Legislature and the Governor’s Office. In addition your work was invaluable in the defeat of Amendment 39, the so-called 65% solution. The citizens of 2008 will also be a huge political year for teachers. In addition to our continued work in the legislature, we will have national elections. AFT will hold its national convention in At the district level the Superintendent and School Board will be moving forward with the redesign of DPS. We will be working to shape that vision to what we see as important for students and teachers. DFT will begin this process by creating a phone bank to give all our members input into the positions we take on school redesign. We need help with this project: · The Executive Board would appreciate your input as to what questions should be asked. · If you can volunteer to help make calls, please let us know. · Lastly, I hope you will be open to sharing your opinions when a member calls to get your input. With the information from the phone bank we will develop position papers for DFT in the areas of school redesign that we feel are essential. Again, thank you for your support during this past year and enjoy your summer.
ps: I believe this webpage is a great resource for keeping our members informed, for recruiting new members and promoting good public policy for DPS. Of course, a web page is only as good as the information we put on it. I look forward to contributions from members in terms of articles they write and links they would like to seen on the site. This is a great volunteer opportunity for our writers and editors.