New Orleans was a hot spot for TUSD staff this past year. Travelling took the TUSD staff away from the district a total of 1626 days in one quarter. The district spent well over $270,000 for travel to Canada to California, Florida to Maryland in the months between April and June.
New Orleans, Louisiana
“Inciting the Social Imagination: Education Research for the Public Good” AERA Annual Conference **
2011 AERA Annual Meeting & Exhibition
April 8 –April 12, 2011
New Orleans, Louisiana
Keynote Speaker: Bill Ayers
Presenters: Auggie Romero’s in-session submission: “Students and Communities Organizing for Social Justice in Arizona”
Student Equity: Director Augustine Romero
$$1,127.04 Deseg
This meeting was the debut performance of Auggie’s production of, “Making Education Matter: Youth, Teachers, Professors, and Community Organizers as Activist-Scholars.” TUSD students were the cast.
According to the abstract of Auggie’s performance, “….these students have been encouraged to seek out and engage in different forms transformative resistance through which they can alter the trajectory of not only their lives, and the social trajectory of their barrios…..The students will also discuss how they have organized against Arizona’s HB 2281(Anti-Ethnic Studies) and SB 1070 (Anti-Latino/Immigrant). Their efforts have included a Justice and Equality run from Tucson to Phoenix (in June in 117°degree heat); a March on the State Capital; numerous community protests; art show etc.”
For the finale, “Our students will offer their perspective on the lack of neutrality in their lives, in education experiences, and in the American social condition, and how reality has influenced not only their research, but their commitment to the social transformation of their communities.”
Gridley Middle School: Teacher
$1,016.70 Middle School Leadership
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American Commodity Distribution Association Annual National Conference
Purchasing Manager: Patricia Bowers
$$2,416.98 Food Services
The conference theme for this year is “Building a Healthy Future Together.” The conference planning committee has taken the theme to heart and filled the agenda with sessions dealing with the future of commodities along with many of the traditional sessions and networking opportunities.
Evidence indicates that the amount of TUSD staff travel has no positive relationship to student performance. 62% of TUSD schools, failed to make “Adequate Yearly Progress” this past school year.
** Not all known participants are listed in quarterly reporting