Saturday will be my very first LAC (Legislative Advisory Council) meeting! Now that my 8 years as a PIE Board director are under my belt I'm excited to approach the legislature from a new angle. The issues facing OEA members are important ones and the upcoming legislative session promises to have its share of surprises.
If you don't know, LAC is the arm of OEA that writes OEA's legislative objectives. We discuss the issues, survey members within our UniServ areas and then bring the feedback to the group for further discussion. We write the legislative objectives based on this discussion. These then go to the OEA Representative Assembly for approval.
Serving on LAC will be a good opportunity for me to hear what members across the state are saying about these issues and whether or not it is time for OEA to rethink its positions. I look forward to Saturday and learning "the scoop" on open primary, fusion voting, virtual vendors, guns in schools and merit pay. The discussion will probably be lively!
3 comments:
Way to go, Judy! I'm pleased you decided to serve on the Legislative Action Committee. With your experience, there will be many opportunities for you to enrich their discussions and actions. Good luck in your new endeavors!
Judy, what does the term, "fusion voting" mean? Sketch out pros and cons, please?
Who or what are "virtual vendors" and what, where, and to whom
are they target marketing their wares/svcs? In what context would they be displayed?
Long gone are the days of only 1 approved school photographer, and only one class ring vendor, and only one approved Grad announcement vendor, yes?
Fusion voting has been coined "confusion voting" because the concept is hard to understand. It means that candidates could run in the same race under multiple parties. For example John Doe could run as an Independent, a Green Party candidate and a Libertarian in the same race and all of the votes would count.
Virtual Vendors refers to virtual charter schools run by for-profit organizations such as the "Connections Academy" based in Scio, OR. They offer a K-11 education (no diploma, however) for profit to home schoolers. Can you imagine online Kindergarten classes? No Kindergartner I know would gain much from being in front of a computer all day.
These are new concepts, the very reason that the LAC is looking at them to find out from our members what OEA's legislative objectives about them should be or if we should address them at all.
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