[Centralok] Fwd: NFBOK Board Resolution 2015-01

[Audrey T. Farnum]

Please see below regarding this very important issue.

Thanks.

Audrey T. Farnum
President
Central Oklahoma Chapter
NFBOK


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Subject: 	NFBOK Board Resolution 2015-01
Date: 	Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:40:17 -0600
From: 	Jeannie Massay <jmassay1 at cox.net>
To: 	Jeannie Massay <jmassay1 at cox.net>



All,

I hope this beautiful Oklahoma Fall day finds you happy and well.

The NFBOK Affiliate Board recently met to discuss concerns about the 
continued efforts of the Oklahoma Council of the Blind to create 
problems where there are none with regard to the Oklahoma School for the 
Blind. Additionally, we felt that it was time for us to make a public 
announcement of support for Director Cordova and his expectations of the 
students and staff at the Oklahoma School for the Blind. I have attached 
a copy of National Federation of the Blind of Oklahoma Board Resolution 
2015-01 and have pasted a copy below for review.

There are further actions being taken and there will be further action 
necessary on your part as well. Be on the lookout for an e-mail from me 
in the next few days. It will be a mobilizing call to action.

I would add an additional comment regarding communication within our 
affiliate.  I encourage more. If you have concerns or questions about 
current issues, programming, legislation…well, anything involving the 
Federation, please let me know. I can’t help and neither can the 
Affiliate Board if we don’t know. We are in all integral and important 
to the organization. We work better, grow more and build a better and 
brighter future for the blind of Oklahoma when we are able to 
effectively communicate with and work together to do so.

Let’s build our Affiliate and the national organization together. Let’s 
go build the Federation!!

Warmly, your sister in the Federation,

Jeannie

Jeannie M. Massay, President

National Federation of the Blind of Oklahoma

Treasurer, National Federation of the Blind

505 Baker Street

Norman, Oklahoma

405-600-0695

Jeannie.massay at nfbok.org <mailto:Jeannie.massay at nfbok.org>

National Federation of the Blind of Oklahoma

Affiliate Board Resolution 2015-01

Regarding the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services actions to 
improve quality education at the Oklahoma School for the Blind.

WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind of Oklahoma is the largest 
and most diverse independent consumer organization of blind persons in 
the state of Oklahoma, and;

WHEREAS, we, as such, recognize the absolute necessity of an equal and 
effective education for blind children to become full and productive 
partners in society, and;

WHEREAS, The Oklahoma School for the Blind is a key resource for the 
development, education, and training of blind children in the state of 
Oklahoma, and;

WHEREAS, The need for raising levels of expectations, standards, and 
outcome measures for the blind students at The Oklahoma School for the 
Blind, relative to those of their sighted peers has come to the 
attention of this organization: Now, therefore;

BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind of Oklahoma Board 
of Directors in teleconference assembled this twenty-sixth day of 
October, 2015, that we unanimously and heartily support the ongoing 
efforts of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services to raise 
expectation levels and standards and to improve the quality of 
educational services at the Oklahoma School for the Blind. Particularly 
in the instruction of the alternative techniques of blindness, including 
Braille, independent travel with a white cane, access technology and 
communication, and other skills of daily living ordinarily associated 
with competence for blind persons, as well as general academic achievement.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the National Federation of the Blind of 
Oklahoma commends and supports the efforts of the Oklahoma Department of 
Rehabilitation Services to provide more open, transparent, and 
comprehensive accountability for the practices, programs, services, and 
activities of the Oklahoma School for the Blind with the aim of bringing 
academic expectations and outcomes for its blind students more 
appropriately in line with those of their sighted peers.



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