October 2006
Dear NAFEPA Members:
Thank
you for your vote of confidence in me to
serve another term as your president. I
appreciate your support and promise to serve
you along with your Board of Directors.
The NAFEPA Fall Workshop for your Board of
Directors was a tremendous success. We spent
hours reviewing where we have been, where we
are, where we want to be as an organization
in the future, and mapping out a plan of
action to reach our goals. You are to be
commended for selecting your state
representatives who serve on the NAFEPA
Board. Every board member was an active
participant, and your many ideas and
concerns of federal program educators in all
states were addressed. The committees spent
productive time planning and goal setting
under the leadership of the new committee
chairs, and you will be hearing more from
them in the coming months. We also installed
our new officers for the next two year term
- Rick Carder as our new vice president,
Debra Baros as secretary, Randy Thudin as
treasurer, and John Pfaff who will continue
with his past president responsibilities as
I begin a second term as your president. We
also installed our three state
representatives who were elected by the
Board to serve on the Executive Committee:
Glenda Virden from Michigan, Terry Lizotte
from Nevada, and Terry Larsen from
California.
In this newsletter you will read about the
recent NCLB hearings conducted by the
California Department of Education. Four of
our NAFEPA members provided testimony for
those hearings in mid-October, and we share
their ideas with you so that you can be
thinking about how NCLB will affect your
states and districts in the future. We thank
Rick Carter, Linda Cook, Terry Larsen, and
Joanna Junge for providing their papers for
NAFEPA members to review. We will also be
posting their work and your comments on our
web page.
In the past months it has been my pleasure
to have been invited to speak at two state
conferences—Florida and Virginia, and I
appreciate their hospitality and welcome the
opportunity to bring NAFEPA to their midst.
Thank you to Robert Pugh and Theo Lawton for
placing NAFEPA on your state agendas.
I want to remind you that you can begin
registering for the NAFEPA Spring Conference
by going to our web site at
www.nafepa.org. The conference committee
members, under Rick Carder, have done an
outstanding job of putting together a
fantastic program. The dates are March
11-14, 2007 at the Crystal City Hyatt in
Crystal City, Virginia, just a short metro
ride from the heart of Washington, DC.
Bobby Burns, President, NAFEPA
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