ACET | Association for Compensatory Educators of Texas

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Over the past 30 years, the Association for Compensatory Educators of Texas has helped thousands of educators provide programs for educationally disadvantaged children in Texas. ACET is committed to insure that all children from Texas reach the pinnacle of success.

2012 Spring Conference Resources

Have you ever had a need to look up information from a previous ACET Conference - presentation, date or time of an event, exhibitor information? We know many of our members do occasionally have a need to reach back to a previous conference to secure information and the good news is that we do archive our confernces (back to 2010) so that our members can access information from a particular conference. This past spring's conference is no exception so if you are looking for a presentation just use the navigation links at the top of our home page under Conferences (past conferences) and select 2012 Spring Conference and it will take you to our archived spring conference information. We have received numerous presentation from presenters, including TEA, after the conference so please be sure to check out the list of presentations.

SBOE Elections

"I want to remind you that EVERY SBOE member is up for election this year. Remember that the SBOE members’ decisions have a BIG impact on our work as educators, so educate yourself about the candidates and participate in deciding who will represent your district by voting in both the primary and fall election. The primary is May 29^th.

ACET does not endorse any candidates for office; however, we strongly recommend you exercise your right to vote!

Thank you for having a voice in our future!"

SBOE_Candidates_and_NEW_districts.pdf

In addition, the website TexasISD.com (www.texasisd.com) is an excellent source of information regarding upcoming primaries and elections. Joe Smith is gathering information from other websites, including endorsements and information about education-friendly candidates, to provide a “one-stop shop” for information on candidates across the state. It is critical that we know our candidates’ stand on education and support education-friendly folks during this election cycle! Please educate yourself and others and VOTE!! Early Voting is May 14-25; Election Day is May 29!

One other thing about elections: you should have received your NAFEPA newsletter by now. You are already a member through ACET, so please DO NOT return the “Subscription/Membership Form.” However, this is election time for NAFEPA, so please look carefully at the ballot, vote, and return your ballot (by US Mail only) to the address listed. (Just FYI: Debra Baros, candidate for President, is an ACET Past President!)

As always, thanks for all you do for Texas education!

Ricky Mitchell

CPE for CPAs Announcement

ACET is pleased to announce that our association is now registered with the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy to provide CPE to Texas CPAs. This is great news for all of our members who are CPAs and looking for CPE credit from our conferences. We also hope that providing CPE credit for CPAs will attract CPAs who work in any educational agency that works with federal and state programs across the state to join us at our conferences. Of course not all of our conference sessions will qualify as CPE for CPAs but those that do will be marked accordingly in our program book. At this spring’s conference we are providing up to 11.5 hours of sessions that qualify as CPE for CPAs. Certificates will be provided to participating CPAs and all other procedural details will be explained in the conference program book.

New Message from ACET President - Spring/Summer 2012

ACET President Ricky Mitchell has posted a new message to all ACET members.

The message can be viewed here (in the NEWS section).