Roy Barnes 2010

Vickie Carson, a retired National Board Certified Teacher, endorsed Roy today.  Read her letter below about why she's another proud Teacher for Roy.

I write to you today as a retired National Board Certified Teacher, a Roy Barnes supporter, and a Georgian who is concerned about the future of public education in our state.

Over the past seven years, more than $3.5 billion in direct instructional funding has been eliminated by our state leaders, and Georgia has become one of only two states in the nation that is furloughing teachers.  Our state has seen tough times in the past, but teachers and students have never before had to pay the price as they are now.

Georgia’s education system is at a breaking point. I can’t sit by and watch our schools suffer because of our state leadership’s shortsighted and misguided agenda.

Roy is the only one I trust to clean up the mess that’s been made of education in our state. He has always been a true advocate for public education – in fact, when Roy was Governor, he created the incentive program to increase the number of National Board Certified Teachers in Georgia – and I am supporting him because I know that his first priority as Governor will be addressing the challenges that teachers and students are facing in the state’s classrooms, not wheeling and dealing in the Capitol’s back rooms.

It’s time that Georgians stand together and demand that students and education come first.