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Union Bargains Improvements in Flint

Five years after accepting dramatic concessions to help pull Flint Community Schools out of deficit spending, the district’s teachers have overwhelmingly approved a contract that raises pay, lowers class sizes, and…

December 19, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

How Do We Solve Educator Shortages?

December 19, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

Opinion: To address literacy, understand link with poverty

December 18, 2019 By PAULA HERBART/President – Michigan Education Association Some of us remember the old “Reading is Fundamental” ad campaign, which encouraged parents to read to their children. Today,…

December 19, 2019Labor Voices, NewsroomBy Miriam Garcia

My View: Three—‘Read or Flunk’ Rules Inspire Fear

“I know my child struggles in reading, but will she pass third grade?” These gut-wrenching words were tearfully repeated many times to me during parent teacher conferences this October. I…

December 18, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

Watch MEA’s Mallory Rivard in Miss America Pageant

MEA member Mallory Rivard emerged the winner in a preliminary round of this year’s Miss America pageant, earning a $1,500 scholarship award for her top score in the overall interview…

December 18, 2019Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

Funding, Literacy Top Launch Michigan Recommendations

Amid a contentious political scene nationally, a diverse group of Michigan leaders from the education, business, civic, and philanthropic realms – often at odds in the political arena – have…

December 18, 2019Featured, Legislation, NewsroomBy Miriam Garcia

Innovation: Place-Based Education One Chapter at a Time

By Brenda Ortega MEA Voice Editor When MEA member Bob Thomson goes to a conference to present data from his “place-based” teaching approach in Alpena Community Schools, educators in attendance tend…

December 18, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

Member-Organizers Make A Difference

Why I wanted to participate: My mother was a bus driver. My aunt’s a teacher. My grandmother’s a bus driver. They were all part of unions, so I’m from a union family. I believe in the…

December 18, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

From Discouraged to Empowered: My Story of Union Advocacy

We have a big problem in Michigan schools, folks, and it has nothing to do with test scores or differentiated instruction. It has everything to do with treating teachers like professionals…

December 18, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia

Above and Beyond

Three MEA members who launched an innovative “Incubator” class last year at Novi High School achieved their “moon shot” this week—they paid it forward by donating $5,000 in profits from…

December 18, 2019MEA Voice Feature, Newsroom, Our Members, TeachersBy Miriam Garcia
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