04 Jan2019
Educators hope that ‘Year of the Teacher’ could be first of many
This article and photo originally appeared on Cronkite News and is reprinted with permission.
A record 1,800 teachers were on ballots across the country this fall, and the National Education Association estimates that as many as 1,100 of them won their races.
Not a perfect score, but good enough for educators to boast that what they have been calling the Year of the Teacher could be just the first of many such years.
“Educators stepped out of their classrooms and into the public realm to run for the legislature and they did it fearlessly, and they did it in a way that made all us proud of them,” said Joe Thomas, Arizona Education Association president.