Earlier this month, the entire field of candidates for president were invited to a forum on education issues at the NEA Representative Assembly in Houston. Ten candidates accepted the invite…
DetailsNEA’s new StrongPublicSchools.org website offers some great tools to help you learn more about the candidates for the 2020 presidential race and get engaged in next year’s election: – Compare Candidates – Especially useful given…
DetailsDelegates to the NEA Representative Assembly will get to hear first-hand from 10 presidential candidates who accepted an invitation to a forum at the annual event in Houston this Friday…
DetailsEAST LANSING – The following can be attributed to MEA President Paula Herbart regarding the tentative plan to address the academic and financial challenges facing Benton Harbor Area Schools: “From…
DetailsThe Michigan Supreme Court this week agreed to hear a case involving an appropriation of tax dollars for private schools by the Michigan Legislature in 2016. A coalition of education…
DetailsAt the second of two June education funding rallies in Lansing on Tuesday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called out Republican leaders in the state Legislature for taking a summer recess without…
DetailsBy Brenda Ortega Editor Like many mid-career teachers in Michigan today, English teacher Maureen Horan can document the decline of her income starting in 2011. Not only did her salary…
DetailsSince MEA’s new discount program with Staples launched late last year, members who’ve signed up have saved thousands of dollars on supply purchases. But we know many haven’t signed up…
DetailsCenter Line math teacher Robert Boccomino retired at the end of last week after a 25-year career in education, but that didn’t stop him from showing up at the Michigan…
DetailsJune 19, 2019 By PAULA HERBART/President – Michigan Education Association Unions learned an important lesson decades ago: collective action gets results. Tuesday, educators from the Michigan Education Association and American Federation…
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