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The Cartoonist Studio presents CONTEST FOUR Special "Election Year" Contest for Cartoonist's of the Political Persuasion, sponsored by The I-PACE - the political action arm of the Indiana State Teachers Association. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUSTIONS

What is the grand prize? I-PACE, the political action arm of the Indiana State Teachers Association, is sponsoring the cartoon contest and will award $400.00 to the Grand Prize winner whose cartoons gain the most votes. I-PACE’s goal is to educate ISTA members and voters at large to issues which led I-PACE and its local PAC affiliates to recommend Glenda Ritz for Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instruction and John Gregg for Governor. Issue topics and background information are provided for the contest (click on Link on top of page), but cartoons on other state issues will be permitted as well in order to include cartoons on timely campaign developments. Must I stick to the recommended topic? It is highly recommended you do so. Are there second and third place prizes? No, not for this contest. IIs voting the only method used to determine a winner? No. The Contest judges will have the final say on who will move forward. Votes will be used as a tool by the judges to help them in selecting which cartoons progress forward, for tiebreakers, and when there is disagreement among judges. Since contestants publish a new cartoon each week, how are votes counted? Votes are tallied at the end of the week, and the top vote getters will be considered eligible for movement to the next round. Who are the judges? The judges selected by TCS and remain confidential. How do I submit my cartoons? You will submit them electronically, on the website. Once you register, you will be guided through the process of uploading each cartoon. The contest lasts eight rounds (each round lasts a week), and a new cartoon is needed for each weeks voting. Contestants will upload a new cartoon on Sundays…..The upload time frames for cartoons will be: Sunday between 6:00 AM and 11:00 PM. Cartoons will be available for viewing and voting at 12:01 AM on Monday. Can I upload more than one cartoon at a time? Yes. For those wishing to do so, all eight cartoons can be uploaded before the contest begins. However, once uploaded, it cannot be changed or modified. And we all know how quickly political events change. When does the contest start? The voting part of the contest will start on Monday, September 10th The deadline for cartoonists to register and submit their cartoons is Saturday, 9/8 at 11:00 PM. The contest will start at 12:00 AM Monday morning. The contest will run for eight (8) weeks If I am the writer of my strip but someone else does the artwork, should both of our names be on the strip? If my strip is the winner, will we both receive the prize as "one person"? Yes on both. Both writer and illustrator are considered the authors of the strip and will receive the prize as "one person". Am I allowed to enter more than one cartoon strip concept? If so, how many? You can enter more than one cartoon concept. No limit to the number of concepts you can enter. However, you must enter each concept under a different email address. Your email address is our control and identification method. Do I need to copyright my comic strip before submitting it? That decision is yours. A copyright is as simple as drawing a circle c with your name and year next to it. How will I know when my comics have been uploaded? You will see the strip in the contest section of the website. Should my drawings only be in black and white or should I color them? Your choice. You are the contestant and the creator. Should I send all single panel cartoons or are strips acceptable? Either is acceptable, but most Editorial Cartoonists stick to single panel. Is there an age limit? If so, if I have permission from a parent or legal guardian, will I still be permitted to enter the contest? There is no age limit or requirement. Is the contest only for residents of the United States? No. The contest is Global. For a political cartoon contest, that perspective should be interesting. I understand that the contest is open to amateurs only. What is your definition of an amateur? For purposes of this contest, an amateur is anyone who derives no more than 25% of their total annual income from cartooning. How does the contest work? The contest lasts eight weeks (or, as we like to say, eight rounds). The website will display a new cartoon each week, on Monday. However, the cartoons must be uploaded on Sundays, before 11:00 pm. Each round starts on Monday and ends Saturday at 11:59 PM. The judges review the voting results and use the voting for 'guidance' in selecting who will move forward. Approximately 10% of the contestants are eliminated each week. So, the contest runs for 8 weeks, and at the end, one winner will be chosen. How many runners-up will there be? There are no runners-up. There is Grand Prize winner. What kind of material is acceptable? Can you give me examples as to what you view as inappropriate? Foul language, explicit drawings or material that would generally be considered pornographic or in bad taste will be deleted from the contest, and be at the sole discretion of the Studio and contest Operators. If I submit material that is inappropriate in the eyes of the judges, will I be notified so I can submit a substitute? The website operators may choose to alert the cartoonists, if they deem it an error in judgment. However, if there is a question by the cartoonist as to the acceptability of a cartoon, the cartoonist should contact tony@thecartooniststudio.com for approval. Do I need to number my selections so you will know in which order to put them? No….The sequence that you use to upload the cartoon to the website is the sequence they will appear. What size should I draw my comics? The maximum size (dimension) of comic strip to be uploaded, should not exceed 800 (Width) 600 (Height). The file size of the comic strip to be uploaded should not exceed 2 MB. Allowed file type extensions are: PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP. TIF extension will not be allowed and the website will not allow users to upload TIF file . I have comics already on the Amateur Cubicle. Would it be a good idea to submit some of those for the contest? No. The contest is separate from the Amateur Cubicle. You want to use 'fresh' strips that have not been seen. Are digital drawings allowed? Yes. The nature of the web site requires digitized images.

Editorial Cartoon Contest

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

Topic 1

TB Vaccination

Award-winning educator Glenda Ritz is the vaccination against T.B. (Tony Bennett) policies on education. Learn more about Glenda Ritz: www.ritz4ed.com. Learn more about Supt. Bennett’s policies on education at www.in.gov/doe.

Topic 2

Lowering licensure standards.

Compare and contrast State Supt. Tony Bennett and challenger Glenda Ritz on teacher and administrator licensure policies. State Supt. Tony Bennett proposes to lower teacher licensure standards so that anyone with a college degree, a given GPA in a particular subject and passage of a paper and pencil test on that subject can teach it. As teacher and school accountability increase, why would Indiana lower teacher preparation standards? Resource: http://media.doe.in.gov/sbe/2012-06-repa2.html play part 2. Is learning HOW to teach as important as WHAT to teach? How would the public react to other professionals with no practical training? In 2011, Supt. Bennett proposed that 50% of charter school teachers need not be licensed at all; legislators reduced that to 10%. Supt. Bennett led the effort to cut pay increases for teacher training and experience by 2/3. State Supt. candidate Glenda Ritz serves on the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, is one of only 155 national board certified educators in the state, holds 2 master’s degrees, multiple teaching licenses for K-12 general and special education and library science, and supports high quality licensure standards with commensurate compensation. Resource: http://www.ritz4ed.com/

Topic 3

Feathering one’s nest?

Why are so many of Tony Bennett’s large campaign contributions from out-of-staters and corporate executives with an interest in taking over management of public schools, privatizing or chartering schools, standardized testing contracts, supplying the state with educational resources to implement the Common Core curriculum? Resource documents: http://stateimpact.npr.org/indiana/2012/08/02/interactive-map-whos-giving-money-in-the-campaign-for-state-superintendent/ https://campaignfinance.in.gov/INCF/TempDocs/55ada64a-c221-410c-ab9e-c81ba4d70b8a.pdf https://campaignfinance.in.gov/INCF/TempDocs/3d33e5c6-91bd-42de-b668-48d0608cd37d.pdf https://campaignfinance.in.gov/INCF/TempDocs/55e97c53-276d-4be4-99f9-9c986535f5ec.pdf

Topic 4

Grade, Fail, Takeover, Privatize Local Schools.

Supt. Tony Bennett proposed to grade each school A – F based primarily on test scores and plotted on a curve with a proportion of schools labeled as failures each year. Failing schools then become targets for state takeover and management by outside, for-profit interests which are not accountable to local school boards, parents, or taxpayers and are not bound by collective bargaining agreements with employees. How would the state’s grading schools as failures and state takeovers help or hurt Hoosier schools, students and employees; real estate values; ability to attract and maintain businesses and families? Would profits or students come first with outside management teams from New York, Florida, etc.? Would parents want their child to remain in a failing ‘state takeover school’? Glenda Ritz believes the State Superintendent should help local schools succeed . She opposes state takeovers and wants to keep public schools public with full service to all students and accountability to local residents.

Topic 5

Testing made me do it!

What problems and wrong conclusions can occur when evaluating students, school staff, and/or schools primarily on students’ test scores? Children are not "standardized". Who will want to teach at-risk students? Are the tests reliable indicators? Do they test what was taught? Can all those tested in English comprehend the language? How could 80% of a school’s students pass I-STEP but all their teachers be ineffective according to the state?

Topic 6

A Child is more than a Test Score.

Candidate Glenda Ritz opposes over-emphasis on standardized testing and says "a child is more than a test score". What other things do public schools do for their students, community, and country? How do those compare in importance to a test score?

Topic 7

Excessive costs of excessive testing!

What problems and ironies are caused by excessive standardized testing, including loss of instructional time (accumulates to 20-30 or more entire days in some schools), banning parents from school on test days to avoid security breaches, increased paperwork, less time for individualized interaction with students and their parents, and more than twice as much state money spent on standardized testing as on remediation.

Topic 8

Indiana falls in funds and rankings.

Quality Counts, the education report card published by Education Week, reveals Indiana fell from 11th in the nation to 30th in school funding since Supt. Bennett took office. http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/qc/2008/18sos.h27.finance.pdf. Overall, Indiana’s quality ranking fell from 12th to 22nd. http://www.edweek.org/ew/marketplace/products/qc2012-shr.html Show what school quality and/or local economic problems resulted from cutting more than $600 per student from public schools state-wide (and almost $ 1billion over 3 years) to balance the budget AND build a $2 Billion state surplus. Schools are the largest employers in many local communities. Did school funding cuts cause layoffs, larger class-sizes, cancelled programs and course offerings, 12-18 hour school days for school staff, less maintenance of busses, cleaning schools less often, student use of hand sanitizers rather than soap and water, bringing one’s own restroom supplies, etc.).

Topic 9

Big Brother Knows Best.

State Supt. Tony Bennett’s office has notified local schools that HIS office will weight and assign a numerical score to the performance of each teacher in the state based primarily on test score indicators even though the new evaluation law says local schools determine staff evaluations. Is the state in a better position to evaluate local staff than on-site evaluators who are required by the Dept. of Ed. to personally observe teachers’ performance? Show the folly of the state requiring local administrators to make massive time commitments to observe and evaluate their staff while the state supersedes local with state decisions.

Topic 10

Connecting the Dots.

Glenda Ritz wants to be your State Superintendent of Public Instruction but says she’ll be more effective if John Gregg is Governor since the Governor appoints the State Board of Education and sets state budget priorities. John Gregg wants Glenda Ritz, a front-line, award-winning educator to be State Superintendent and says they’ll both be more effective if more friends of public education comprise the state legislature which passes the budget and can correct bad laws. Show how each of these pieces is a critical part of the whole to restore school funding and sanity to education policymaking.

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