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MSEA Fights Privatization of Support Staff Jobs

The shortage of skilled education employees in Maryland goes beyond setting new policies to expand and diversify the education profession—it also means looking at the issue of local boards of education using subcontractors as a way to fill the gaps in the shortages of support staff employees like bus drivers, custodians, and more who keep […]
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Solving the Educator Shortage: Expanding and Diversifying the Profession

he most vexing problem facing nearly every community across the nation is the dwindling educator pipeline. Whether a community is experiencing this shortage now or bracing for it in the near future, it’s a crisis that must be addressed through an equitable and just public school model that funds the cost of more highly qualified […]
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A Message from President Cheryl Bost: Take Your Power! Vote in the MSEA Election!

For over five years, my goal has been to lift up educator voices in all areas where decisions about education and our unions are made. I’m so proud of all the members who have stepped up to share their stories, spoken up for what they and their students need, and shown up to protect our […]
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Inside MSEA with Sean Johnson: This Is Our Moment

OUR UNION. OUR MOMENT. A new year means time to reflect on past battles that have changed our schools for the better in Maryland. It’s also time to anticipate the future needs of public education in our changing world. I believe our union can meet this moment and secure a great public education for students, […]
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MSEA’s 2023 Convention and Representative Assembly
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MSEA Welcomes Community College Faculty

Every union has units of employees it represents. MSEA, which has long represented certificated educators, support professionals, and administrators (in six counties), is now welcoming fulltime community college faculty to our larger union family. In 2021, legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly gave community college employees the right to unionize and win improvements in […]
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The Good Trouble Questionnaire: Ben Nadler

Ben Nadler makes good trouble as a member of the new Union of Harford Community College Faculty, where he is an English professor. He is among the organizers who founded the new faculty union at HCC, MSEA’s first higher ed unit in the state. Read more about MSEA’s newest members here. What do you love […]
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Inside MSEA with Sean Johnson: See you in Annapolis

This issue of ActionLine includes a summary of key initiatives that will be part of MSEA’s legislative program during the upcoming General Assembly session. There is a lot of power in having MSEA lobbyists working for you while you are working for students. But that power is best realized when your voice is part of […]
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A Message from Cheryl Bost: Our Lives Are Overly Scheduled!

Whether you’re working to meet job expectations, family expectations, or just adulting in general, do you, like me, check your calendar to know where you’re supposed to be when? Do you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel and you can’t get off because…if you don’t do the work, who will? When someone tells you […]
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