Prior to the last two rounds of teacher contract negotiations, PTSA has surveyed its community members what we value most in our schools in the Issaquah School District. The input collected from those prior surveys was presented to bargaining teams prior to negotiations, to give them a community perspective on our schools. Our school district is about to engage in a new round of negotiations for contracts that expire in 2014. The PTSA is once again asking its community to weigh in on these issues. The input collected from this survey, along with information culled from last Spring’s Homework Survey, will be part of a presentation in early January 2014 to representatives from the District Administration, the School Board, and the Issaquah Education Association (our teachers' union). Please take the survey by clicking on the link at the end of the sentence; if clicking does not work, please copy and paste the URL into your browser:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/communityvalues13. THE SURVEY WILL CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT ON THURSDAY, DEC. 12th.

Are you interested in being on our PTSA Board or do you know someone who would be really great in a Board position next year? Please take a quick look at the Board positions and their related job descriptions on our website  www.cascaderidgeptsa.org (click on PTSA and then Board Members) and let us know who would fit any of these positions. If you know of someone who would generally be a great Board member but you’re not sure in which specific position, we also want to hear from you!

Starting in January, our Nominating Committee will be collecting the names to slate for our 2014-15 PTSA Board and we always want to get a diverse group of members from our broad community on the Board. Please contact Helen DiMeco at hdimeco@comcast.net or Ann Brooks at  ann_e_brooks@yahoo.com with any names and ideas you have!