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What Gov. Hogan’s Education Announcement Is Trying to Distract You From

  Photo from Governor’s Office. On Monday morning, Gov. Hogan held a positively Trumpian press conference, attacking school systems in jurisdictions that didn’t vote for him (Baltimore City and Prince George’s County in particular), bizarrely attempting to relitigate old fights (introducing a bill called the Protect Our Students Act, an attempt to cozy up further […]
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Student Poverty? Class Size? We’re On It.

This is our moment — if we are to be successful in our work influencing the recommendations of the commission to right the $3 billion annual funding deficit that our schools face, we need to educate each other, our communities, and our representatives in Annapolis. Meet Liz, Ronnie, Dwayne, Betty, Jeff, and Vernon — six MSEA activists who are […]
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550+ Meetings and 10,000+ Educators

What do our students deserve? More than MSEA members responded with better pay, more staff, and increased student services. “This really is our moment, and members are responding to it. Legislators will hear from 73,000 members come January with a strong message of unity and purpose for improving our schools — and they won’t stop hearing from […]
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3 Ways the New Kirwan Commission Timeline Can Help

  twitch.tv What do our students deserve? Thousands of MSEA members responded in building meetings with better pay, more staff, and increased student services. The recently announced delay in the final roll-out of the Kirwan Commission’s recommendations, while disappointing, make organizing and power-building all the more important — and MSEA will take full advantage of the new […]

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“Students Need to Be Something Other Than Just a Student.”

© Stephen Cherry The 2017–18 Maryland Teacher of the Year is Josh Carroll, a STEM and English teacher at South River HS and a member of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County. ActionLine recently caught up with Josh to learn about what inspires and guides him as a teacher. In your teaching, do you think […]
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Betty Weller: We’re Making the Connections on School Funding, Student Services, and Student Success

Betty Weller, MSEA President I’ve been travelling the state over the last month to meet with members and talk about the opportunity we have to improve school funding through the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission. This is a chance to improve the future success of our schools and the resources available to students and educators. […]
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Dwayne Lovett — Paying It Forward One Student at a Time

Since I began my journey in Dorchester schools, it’s been my hope to make a significant impact in our community. When I first began working at North Dorchester High School, I saw students — mostly male — with academic and personal problems. They came to me for advice and encouragement. I was sure other students […]
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“Kids Before Content. Love Before All.”

Early career educators Richard Warren Jr., John Wombach, Sarah Gizaw, and Arame Richardson with 2014 National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb. “The day after the conference,” said music educator John Wambach, “I started drafting a behavior reflection document — using specific language from one of the workshops — that my students now complete when they are disrupting another’s education.” […]
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Bargaining Your Contract — Your Right and Duty

In Maryland, education employees work under their negotiated contracts, which are written jointly by their union and board of education. At the bargaining table, teams from each side discuss and debate employee and employer issues and concerns that affect both sides. The outcome of the negotiations become the conditions that make up your daily work […]
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