Saturday, February 6

The BTA will be collecting donations outside of the ACME supermarket in Bronxville for the Food Bank of Westchester.  We need some BTA members to join them.  Let Glenn and Meg know what time that morning you are available to help.  

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Hello All!

We were so happy to hear from a number of our members that they were happy to help assemble the Socks of Love and Sweet Valentine's during our BTA meeting time on Wednesday, February 10th.  Thank you also to those who already stepped up by donating goods and offering to drop off the completed packets!!  

TWO UPDATES:

Location change for assembly is now in Joyce Myers room as the Cafeteria was already booked.  Thank you Joyce!

Change to donated goods (you can still donate up until Friday, Feb. 5th.
 
We are now adding in addition to hershey kisses, any other individually wrapped candies for the socks of love!

Other items to be collected include:  individually wrapped tea bags, snack bars, gum packs and mints.

Thanks all for your continued generosity to make others feel loved!

Mary Beth and Christina

Go to the NYSUT Member Action Center

It takes no time!  Just click that link above.  Send faxes to your state legislators to oppose back-door vouchers in the name of "Education Investment Tax Credit."  

It's a way to reduce the taxes collected by the State for public schools by siphoning monies off to private and parochial schools.  

Here's what NYSUT Vice President Andy Pallotta has to say about it:

Introduced with the proposed budget, the Education Investment Tax Credit is a thinly disguised private school voucher scheme offered under the guise of charitable giving for education purposes. Individuals and corporations will be able to reduce their tax bills by sending what they would otherwise owe in taxes to a foundation or educational scholarship organization that will turn the money into a private school voucher or will subsidize tuition at both religious and non-religious private schools. 

And the price tag? $170 million in the first year, alone! 

​The Bronxville Teachers' Association's annual end-of-year dinner celebrating the successes of the year and honoring retirees has been moved to 


Tuesday, June 14
at the 
Dunwoodie Country Club in Yonkers.

Keep your eyes out for more information, but I wanted to give everyone time to adjust calendars.  

This year's party promises to be one of the biggest and best we've ever thrown - you don't want to miss this one! 

Many thanks to Dana Landesman for her expert party planning!

Join your BTA Brothers and Sisters for a new year's celebration at Fogarty's this Friday.  We'll be there starting at around 3:00.

Reach out to David Katz or one of the members of the BTA Executive Council for more information about our negotiated retirement incentive for teachers.  

Be on the lookout for a new BTA publication, "In Solidarity," a review of our Union's work for the first few months of the 2015-2016 school year.  This, along with the brochure you received at the start of the year and the one-on-one outreach initiative, is a direct result of the planning meeting that was attended by more than 30 of us last June.  We are working to improve our Union communication.  

Then, please provide David Katz with some feedback about it.