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2019 MSEA Convention

Join us at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City October 18–19 for MSEA’s 152nd Convention — two days of workshops and exhibits plus our annual Representative Assembly where delegates gather to do the work of the association. MSEA Convention FAQs. Bonus: MSEA Takes Over Seacrets — one of Ocean City’s favorite nightclubs on Friday night! Contact […]

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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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NEA’s Representative Assembly: Why All the Fuss?

#RedforEd lifts off at the 2018 NEA Representative Assembly. July marks the biggest event on the national education union calendar — NEA’S 2019 Representative Assembly. Some 8,000 delegates convene, representing 3 million public school employees from across the country, who together set policy and chart the direction of NEA business. It’s the largest democratic deliberative assembly in […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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More Than Appreciation — We Need Respect, Autonomy, Resources

MSEA President Cheryl Bost at the March for Our Schools on March 11, 2019. Photo © Stephen Cherry I want to let you in on a secret — I have an issue with Teacher Appreciation Week. It’s not about all the thanks you’ll get, which are incredibly well deserved. The work we do to help our students — inspiring their […]

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Saying Goodbye to Mike Busch

It is impossible to reflect on the 2019 legislative session without recognizing the difficult news on the passing of House Speaker Michael E. Busch. On the day before Sine Die — the last day of the legislative session — Speaker Busch died after complications of pneumonia that followed previous health challenges after a liver transplant two years ago. His […]

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Bargaining for the Common Good

bargainingforthecommongood.com Earlier this year, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter Steven Greenhouse wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece about the teacher strikes in Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia and the hotel workers’ strikes around the country: “Recognizing that unions are often isolated and under attack, those that struck went to […]

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MSEA Election 2019

This year, MSEA members voted in Theresa Dudley and Tanya Martin as two new members of the NEA Board of Directors, which consists of at least one representative from each state plus an additional one for every 20,000 members. They begin three-year terms on September 1 on both the NEA board and MSEA’s 15-member board. […]

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