MEA Voice Magazine – August 2020 Issue
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MEA Voice Magazine – August 2020 Issue
Click to view online. In this issue: Above and Beyond – Ben Henri Living Life as an Educator Crisis Time – From Surreal Spring to Stressed Summer: A Timeline of…
DetailsSen. Gary Peters deserves your support for re-election
“Our public schools cannot be a casualty of COVID.” Those words from U.S. Sen. Gary Peters—during a May virtual rally for federal education funding to help avoid pandemic-driven cuts—encapsulate why he…
DetailsMember Spotlight: Chuck Waldroup
Chuck Waldroup signed up to be a bus mechanic seven years ago with Inland Lakes School District, but to his surprise a driver shortage placed him behind the wheel in…
DetailsOur Chance to Fire Betsy DeVos
It is a deeply partisan time in Michigan and across the country. But, across partisan lines, MEA’s members have experienced why U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is the wrong…
DetailsHigher Ed Unions ‘Building a Bridge Over a Chasm’
In February, Martin McDonough became president of one of MEA’s largest local units—the Administrative Professional Association (APA) at Michigan State University. The next month, pandemic-related closures hit higher education in…
DetailsVirtual Schools Seek Digital ‘Foot in Door’
Kathy Bommarito worries that a decision this spring by the Avondale School District where she is union president could represent a foot in the door for online school vendors seeking…
DetailsLiving Life as an Educator
By Anthony Barnes Special Education teacher Kalamazoo Public Schools Being an educator is much more than a job or a career; it is a lifestyle. Living as an educator means…
DetailsAbove and Beyond – Ben Henri
MEA member Ben Henri teaches his vocal music and Quiz Bowl students in Grosse Pointe to celebrate each other’s successes, because “It makes everything that much sweeter,” he says. Last…
DetailsNew Bus Highlights 45 Years of West Ottawa Bookmobile
The West Ottawa Education Association has been operating a summer Bookmobile – a library on wheels to bring reading to kids. This year, the program got a new bus, thanks…
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