Steel+Valley+Teachers,+Board+to+Discuss+Corbett's+Cuts

=By Mary Niederberger= =//Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette//= =//4/20/11//= = =

=A public meeting sponsored by members of the Steel Valley Education Association and the school board's education committee will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Steel Valley High School auditorium to discuss the proposed state education budget cuts.= =The members of the SVEA who are involved are members of the T.E.A.C.H. committee, which stands for Tell Everyone All Cuts Hurt. The committee was created by the Steel Valley teachers and has now been adopted by other PSEA locals across the state, according to Butch Santicola, PSEA spokesperson. The chairperson of T.E.A.C.H. is Jill Fleming-Salopek, a Steel Valley teacher.= ="It is not a peaceful time in public education. Our members are tired of the constant attacks on what they do, whether it be classroom teaching or support work," Mr. Santicola said in a press release today.= =State Sen. Jay Costa and State Reps. William Kortz, D-Dravosburg, and Marc Gergely, D-White Oak, have been invited to attend the meeting.= = = = = = Read more: [] = = = = =

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