In an unprecedented display of unity, leaders of the state’s most influential education organizations announced their opposition to re-enacting elements of Governor Bobby Jindal’s radical education agenda.
Added authorizations for current Special Education teachers have resulted in credential holders being required to take additional coursework in order to serve students. SB 368 will allow Special Educators who need to obtain additional credential authorizations to receive credit for previous experience and coursework by granting credential programs the authority to make decisions about issues of equivalence, articulation and comparability when determining the coursework needs of teachers. Enactment of SB 368 will ensure that Special Educators are evaluated individually and receive credit f
By unanimous vote, PFSP members voted to ratify the new three-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (Re-opener) reached in June 2014.
Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that AFT Healthcare will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the S
Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that MPEC will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the State of Maryland.
In this week's NDPEA Legislative Update, we are waiting for a compromise to be hammered out between legislative leaders in the Senate and House toward state employee compensation. After that decision is made, a whole lot of other ones will fall into place. And we're happy to see the higher education overhaul measure go down in flames. Read all about it.
Listed below is information for early voting and Election Day. Please click here for endorsement candidates for the May 4, 2013 Election.
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2013 Spring Off Year Special Election: May 4, 2013 General
Hey smart phone users! Have you downloaded NYSUT's MAC (member action center) app? FAX your legislators with the click of a button. It works too. I was standing in Assemblyman Lopez's office when another teacher sent a fax, seconds later the office fax machine went to work. If we don't speak-up for education who will?
