![]() These portraits and biographies of outstanding APIA women were created by students from the Asian American Studies Department (AAS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and have been adapted by TACT for Grade 2. All are free downloads but a $5 donation to the TACT Curriculum Committee would be most appreciated! Encourage students to find main ideas and draw items that depict the work of the individuals in the space around their portrait: Ruth Asawa, Elaine Chao, Christine Chen, Heather Fong, Jacqueline Nguyen, Mine Okubo, Velma Veloria, Flossie Wong-Staal Additional biographies may be found in TACT: Crossing Boundaries. List of outstanding APIA Women.
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UESF is preparing the field campaign to get the new parcel tax passed in June. UESF is working with a broad coalition of supporters to get our members an additional salary increase. It will be between 6 and 7% of teachers' base pay. Through polling,Cantonese-speaking voters have been identified as a key component for this election. The campaign has two job opportunities:
1. Full-time organizer- between 35 and 40 hours a week, salary range - $4000/ month 2. Part-time organizer- About 5 hours a week, @ $40 /hour. This is a UESF area organizer position. The focus of this work will be outreach to our members at sites and the families of our students. Please contact Lita Blanc for details: Lita Blanc President, United Educators of San Francisco 2310 Mason Street San Francisco. CA 94133 [email protected] tel. 415 956-8373 fax.415 956-8374 United Educators of San Francisco has started their endorsement process for this year’s school board campaign. On Saturday, March 10th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. candidates will be interviewed by their COPE members. The recommendations from the March 10th UESF/COPE meeting will be presented to the UESF Executive Board meeting on April 4, 2018. That body will consider those recommendations and make the final UESF endorsements for school board to the Executive Board.
They will provide childcare, breakfast, and lunch and there will be a raffle at the end of the COPE meeting. Also, parking is available in the yard. Entrance is on the Bartlett Street side. Your participation is crucial! If you have any questions, please call Anabel Ibáñez at 415-956-8373 ext. 129 or email at [email protected]. UESF/COPE Recommendation Meeting Saturday, March 10th from 9:30 AM to 4 PM Buena Vista Horace Mann School 3351 23rd Street. They will be interviewing the following candidates: Jose (JB) Tengco, Leah Pimentel, Josephine Zhao, Michelle Parker, Emily Murase, Monica Chinchilla, Mia Satya, Alida (Lee) Fisher, Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, & Faauuga Moliga TACT is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2019! Interested in helping plan a special and memorable event?
Please email Christie Kitsuda here: kitsudaC1 (at) sfusd.edu While the news around undocumented immigrants have focused on people from Latin America, it is also a concern within the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) community. Of the 11.5 million estimated undocumented people, over 10% are of APIA descent. Here are the 2012 estimates according to statistics compiled from the Department of Homeland Security by ASPIRE, a youth group of the Asian Law Caucus:
China 280,000 Philippines 270,000 India 240,000 Korea 230,000 Vietnam 170,000 Other 100,000 Of those approximately 1.3 million undocumented APIA, some are children in our schools who have no idea that their parents had overstayed their visas. Their fears are the same as others affected by the impending changes in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program according to Hong Mei Pang of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a speaker at our recent Angel Island event on February 3. The fear of being discovered has been a part of our history in America. After the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, we had entered or re-entered the country with false paper documents despite having contributed legitimately to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and to the growth of California agriculture as farmworkers and levee builders. From 1910-1940 Chinese had to be incarcerated for weeks, sometimes months, and interrogated to establish their identity on Angel Island. Detainees carved angry poems on its wooden walls which have been translated and preserved today. TACT has created some PowerPoints on Angel Island for elementary and secondary schools as well as a recommended reading list. |
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