Box 6, Folder 2, Document 22

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Box 6, Folder 2, Document 22

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A RESOLUTION

ATLANTA TEACHERS REPRESENTATION ON THE
LOCAL EDUCATION COMMISSION OF ATLANTA AND FULTON COUNTY

WHEREAS, the legislators were asked to name the presidents of the Atlanta
and Fulton County Teacher Associations, as representatives of teachers on
the commission, and

WHEREAS, this request was made at our dinner conference with the Fulton
County delegation and at the formal hearing in the State Capitol, and

WHEREAS, the delegation indicated their interest in honoring this request
each time it was made, and

WHEREAS, the request was not honored in H. B. 623, and

WHEREAS, our presidents are the elected representatives of all professional
personnel other than Superintendents, and

WHEREAS, our presidents are knowledgeable in matters pertaining to the
problems involved, and

WHEREAS, our presidents act after apprising the organizations of the facts,
and

WHEREAS, the organization, which is composed of over ninety five percent
(95%) of the professional personnel, act as directed, by their constituents,

and

WHEREAS, the education of our children is vitally involved in the study of
problems and decisions reached, and

WHEREAS, the future of Metropolitan Atlanta is at stake, and

WHEREAS, the livelihood of all employees of the Atlanta and Fulton County
Boards of Education is involved in the final solution, and

WHEREAS, the past action of the Commission has not appeared to be adequately
informed about the total nature of the subject "Better Schools for Atlanta

and Fulton County", and

WHEREAS, we deny anyone other than our president or his appointed represen-
tative the authority to speak, write or act on our behalf, and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we are not represented on the Commission, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we request formal representation as voting mem-
bers of the Commission, occupying vacancies now on the Commission.

Adopted: May 15, 1967
The Atlanta Public School
Teachers! Association,

197 Central Avenue, S. W.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303


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