Your Vote, Your Voice!
Let’s Lead Our Students Forward, Not Back!
When it’s election season, MSEA members always step up and do their civic duty—voting at rates above the general public and supporting pro-public education candidates at the top of the ticket, for school board, and for county-level seats. That’s what we do as educators—and it’s more important than ever given the stakes this year. With Donald Trump threatening to end public sector unions, Larry Hogan threatening to be the 51st vote in a closely divided, highly partisan Senate, and extremist board of education candidates threatening to ban books and further politicize our classrooms, now is the time to keep stepping up. We must stand against extremism and protect our freedoms, our profession, our students, and our community. It all depends on making a plan and making a commitment to vote, to speak out, and to spread the word about why it matters so much.
MSEA and NEA members are looking for a new leader who will build the future our students, educators, families, and their communities deserve. “We can elect a president who will make sure our students can live into their full brilliance and be exactly who they are without apology or a president who will demonize them and privatize our schools,” says NEA President Becky Pringle.
“Now is the time to reclaim public education as a common good and to elect a leader ready to work hand in hand with educators to promote, protect and strengthen our public schools.”
Here’s are just some of the reasons NEA members are behind Vice President Kamala Harris and educator Gov. Tim Walz as the next president and vice president of the United States…
When it came time to appoint a secretary of education, the Biden-Harris Administration elected Miguel Cardona, an educator. When Trump had the same opportunity, he appointed Betsy DeVos, someone with no experience in education who spent her career undermining public schools by taking public school funds and handing them off to private schools.
Harris and Walz support making sure students can read diverse books; Trump supports letting politicians ban them.
Harris and Walz want billionaires to pay higher tax rates than teachers and educators; Trump wants even more tax breaks for billionaires.
Harris and Walz want to keep guns out of our schools; Donald Trump wants more guns.
Harris and Walz listen to educators with classroom experience; Trump listens to billionaires who want to take money away from public schools to fund private schools.
Harris and Walz care about working people like us and unions like ours, while Trump tried to make it harder to bargain for our rights and for students.
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