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Legal Questions

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A Word From the Legal Team on Social Media Posts …

Employees may mistakenly believe that the First Amendment protects their right to post anything they want on social networking sites. Unfortunately, school employees have limited free speech rights — employee speech is not entitled to First Amendment protection. Save these tips and share them with colleagues. Keep you and your job safe! 15 Tips from MSEA’s Legal Team Set […]
School Funding

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Inside MSEA with David Helfman

MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. This fall, the Kirwan Commission expects to complete its recommendations on a new school funding system that will then be sent to the governor and General Assembly. The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future provided a $1.1 billion down payment on this plan, enabling school systems to strengthen pre-K and special education programs, […]
School Funding

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What’s Are the Next Steps for the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future?

Here’s a timeline of what to expect from the Kirwan Commission and the new school funding formula: Fall 2019 A workgroup on school funding supporting the work of the Kirwan Commission meets to develop recommendations on revising the state’s school funding formula. Late Fall 2019 Full Kirwan Commission meets to consider the subgroup’s funding recommendations so […]
Professional Practice

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What’s Play Good For? PLENTY!

Here are just some of the benefits of more outdoor time and play: Better school performance Time spent in nature and increased fitness improves cognitive function. More creativity Outdoor play uses and nurtures the imagination and encourages collaboration. Much higher levels of fitness Kids are more active when they are outdoors. More friends Children who […]
Discipline-Related Issues

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The School Discipline Crisis

Systemic poverty, institutional racism, mass incarceration, school funding and supports, technology, class sizes, under-resourced communities, lack of fresh air and exercise, student access to drugs, the opioid crisis — all these things and more help to create the difficult classroom environments so many of our students and educators are experiencing today. But the overwhelming questions of who […]
Union Updates

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Big Wins in Prince George’s

A PGCEA member from Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. It was the day after National Teacher Appreciation Day, but members of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA) weren’t feeling it. They’d missed step increases during the recession in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that were never made up and were put on the back burner year […]
Union Updates

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“Red for Ed Is Not a Teachers’ Movement, It’s a People’s Movement.”

Baltimore County government teacher Katherine Mullen was in Washington, D.C. to brief the Congressional Progressive caucus on educators and school issues. It’s not often a public school educator gets to be part of a formal briefing to a Congressional caucus, but that’s exactly what Baltimore County government teacher Katherine Mullen and colleagues from California, New Mexico, […]
Teacher Toolkit

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Toolkit: Grammy Award Nominee for Music Education Brandi Jason

Brandi Jason and her clarinet. Brandi Jason is the instrumental music director at Liberty High School in Carroll County. She’s also the 2019–2020 Carroll County Teacher of the Year and a four-time Grammy Music Educator nominee — a 2016 and 2018 semi-finalist and a 2017 finalist! INVEST IN SMALL UPGRADES Not all programs can afford intermediate or […]
Union Updates

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It’s Been a Very Good Year

MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. A message from MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. Despite the Supreme Court decision attacking unions through the elimination of agency fees, MSEA’s membership didn’t shrink — it increased. More than 8,500 members and supporters marched in Annapolis for school funding, leading to state […]
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