Greetings!
It is indeed a good day in Alabama for gifted education!! In case you have not heard, Gifted Education was signed as a line item on the Alabama Education Trust Fund Budget. You can see it at: http://www.lfo.alabama.gov/
I want to thank everyone who was a part of making this happen. Teachers, please thank your children for me for their cards, letters, and emails to their state representatives. I know it was their efforts that truly made this happen. The AAGC board and I would also like to thank Representative Paul Lee who has been our first big supporter. He made it possible for us to visit Jay Love and present to him the true need for gifted education.
However, we are not through though, and there still remains much work to be done. Please write or email the representatives you contacted and Governor Bentley for making our funding happen. Then, keep in contact with these elected officials. Invite them to your classroom. Get them to be true stakeholders in gifted education.
Thanks again for your continued support. Helen Keller said it best when she said, “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
Stay in contact with us at our AAGC web page at http://alabamagifted.org and follow us on Facebook (AAGC group) and Twitter (@aagc11).
Sincerely,
Audrey Fine, President
Alabama Association for Gifted Children



