This past weekend, the AFT-Wisconsin Executive Board voted to endorse the AFT-Wisconsin Statement on Refugees, Immigration, and the Trump Agenda. The Statement is about the recent Executive Orders on refugees and immigrants issued by President Trump, but also and more broadly about the role of our unions in times like these.
MCEA members and leadership were in Annapolis on Monday, February 6th to greet members of the Maryland General Assembly at a legislative reception hosted by AFT-Maryland at the Maryland Inn.
NTU Legal Victories – These cases matter. If the Governor and Cerf had prevailed at the Supreme Court there wouldn’t be a worry over contract negotiations—there’d be not contract. If Cerf and his friends in the corporate charter school industry had prevailed at the State Board of Education in seeking to devalue certifications for charter school teachers, how long do you think they would take to come after yours?
Colleagues,
Seton Hall Informational Meeting - Seton Hall University will be holding an Open House/Information Session for their next Executive M.A. & Ed.S Degree Program in Education Leadership, Management, and Policy on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 4:30pm at the NTU Offices at 1019 Broad Street, Newark. For more information, see the attached flyer.
In Solidarity,
Mike Maillaro
The AFT-Maryland brought together Maryland Legislators and the leadership of the collective unions of the state federation for a reception in Annapolis. More than 20 members of the Maryland General Assembly were in attendance and discussed important education and public employee issues facing the General Assembly this session.
Area IV Meetings for 2017 are scheduled as follows:
1st Quarter: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 6:00 P.M. Mountain Gate Restaurant
2nd Quarter: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 6:00 P.M. Location to be determined
3rd Quarter: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:00 P.M. Penn Alps Restaurant
4th Quarter: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 6:00 P.M. Western Sizzlin
See the flyer for Equity Day at the Capitol in Olympia on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Transportation and lunch provided.
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Ashland Chapter 42
Second Reading of Proposed Chapter Constitution Revision
Being female was hard enough, but being a black female with ambitions to design spacecraft was beyond challenging in her day!
