Created in 2001 by the Public Relations Committee and the Executive Committee, the Five Star Award honors local affiliates that are leaders in involvement with the Association. This year’s list of winners includes a number of local affiliates who are receiving this award for the first time.

To receive the Five-Star Local Award, a local association needed to fulfill five of the following criteria during the 2008-09 school year:

1. send a representative to both NEOEA Representative Assemblies;
2. send a representative to both OEA Representative Assemblies;
3. send a member to attend at least one NEOEA workshop other than NEOEA Day;
4. send a representative to at least half of the meetings of a UniServ Council that met at least three times;
5. have at least 25% of its members contributing to the Ohio Fund for Children and Public Education (FCPE); and
6. submit an application for at least one of the three NEOEA Public Relations awards:

• Public Relations Mini-Grants
• Positive Image Award
• Newsletter Award

• ACCESS


• Ashtabula Area TA


• Austintown EA


• Barberton EA


• Bay TA


• Bedford EA #


• Brecksville-Broadview EA


• Brunswick EA


• Brunswick ESP Assn.


• Canfield EA


• Cardinal EA


• Champion EA


• Clearview EA


• Conneaut EA


• Copley TA


• Cuyahoga Hts. Assn. of Teachers


• East Cleveland EA


• Elyria EA


• Euclid TA #


• Firelands EA *


• Howland Classroom TA #


• Independence EA


• Kenston EA


• Lakeview TA


• Lakewood TA


• Lorain EA


• Maple Heights TA


• Maplewood Career Center EA *


• Mayfield Assn. of Support Personnel (MASP)


• Medina City TA


• Mentor Classified Employees


• Mentor TA


• Midview EA


• Nordonia Hills Educators’ Assn.


• Olmsted Falls EA *


• Painesville City TA #


• Professional Assn. Teaching Mentally Retarded (PATMR)


• Riverside Local EA *


• Sandusky EA


• Sheffield-Sheffield Lake TA


• Southeast Local District TA


• Stow TA


• Tallmadge TA


• Twinsburg EA #


• Warren EA #


• Warrensville EA


• Wellington EA


• Wellington Support Staff Assn.


• West Branch EA


• Westlake TA


• Willoughby-Eastlake TA


• Youngstown EA


• YSU-ACE