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Log
on to www.dsea.org and check out:
DSEA classes - Defensive Driving, Are you ready to Retire? and
hundreds of member-only discounts.
DSEA and DoE sponsoring RtI - Response to
Intervention - Symposium
February 6, 2010, 8-3pm, Dover Downs. Open to all educators. Click
here for more information and to register online.
Winter Advocacy Retreat at the Beach reg online ready
to go. Deadline is Feb. 1.
Barnes and
Noble Educator Appreciation Days Jan 16-24
Save 25% on books; 10% on music and DVDs in stores Jan 16-24,
and Online beginning
now through Jan. 24.
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RTTT Update:
DSEA and all locals indicate support for DE's application
Tell
Congress and the President:
Absolutely No
Excise Tax On Health Insurance Plans!
Now that the House and Senate have each passed different
versions of health care reform legislation, the two chambers are
currently working out a final health care bill.
The Senate bill would pay for needed reforms by imposing a 40 percent
excise tax on high-cost insurance plans. The White House has expressed
support for the excise tax. The
House bill includes no such tax.
The excise tax is bad policy. It would have a devastating impact on
exactly the type of good, comprehensive health care plans reform should
be promoting. At the same time, despite President Obamas promise that
those with employer-sponsored health insurance could keep what they have,
the excise tax would lead to large-scale upheaval in many workers
current coverage, including increased costs and reduced benefits.
The excise tax will disproportionately hurt women, who are more
vulnerable to high health care costs than men.
The excise tax would affect workers who, for decades, have sacrificed
salaries for health care benefits, and would be so devastating that
entire types of coverage would likely be stripped away.
Tell the White
House and the Senate that the House is right!
Taxing working
families benefits is just plain wrong.
Contact your
Members of Congress and the President today!
Click
here to tell Congress and President Obama to pass health reform that is
paid for fairly and not on the backs of middle class families.
Read
more about excise tax myths vs. facts.
Read
about the impact of the excise tax on women.
Learn
more about NEAs position on health care.
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YOUR UNION
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Join
the DSEA Executive Board
A vacancy currently exists on the DSEA Executive Board for a
New Castle County Board member due to the resignation of Kelli Bradley of
Brandywine. The term for this vacant Board seat expires in August of
2011.
Anyone working in New Castle County interested in serving on the DSEA
Executive Board is asked to send a letter of intent to the attention of
Diane Donohue, president, DSEA, 136 East Water Street, Dover, DE 19901 by
9:00 a.m. on Friday, January 15, 2010.
The person chosen by the current Exec. Board will begin his/her term at
the February 19, 2010 Executive Board meeting.
If you have any questions, please contact Sandy Dearman at (302) 734-5834
or by e-mail.
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YOUR VOICE
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DSEA
Election isgoing GREEN!
New this year, you can choose to vote online.
Next week, all DSEA members for whom we have e-mail
addresses will be sent information about having a choice to cast their
votes online this year or to use a paper ballot.
This move will help DSEA be more "green," using less paper;
save some expense in printing and postage costs; and, we hope, increase
the number of members who participate in the elections.
DSEA members for whom we have no
e-mail address will receive a paper ballot mailed to their home,
with instructions allowing them to either go online to vote, or to send
back the paper ballot.
If you do not receive either an e-mail or a paper ballot
from DSEA by January 25, please contact Judy
Anderson at
DSEA by e-mail, or by phone toll-free at 1-866-734-5834.
Elections for NEA Director,
NEA RA delegate and Susex County Executive Board seats are contested. To
see who is running, go to http://www.dsea.org, log in,
and then go to About DSEA, DSEA Elections.
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YOUR ASSOCIATION
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Nominations for
DSEA Awards are due by February 1.
www.dsea.org/AboutDSEA/Awards.html
ESP Person of the
Year
Helen D. Wise
Award
Susan Roushey
Advocacy Award
Community
Partnership Award
Legislative Friend
of Education Award
Information about DSEA's other awards -
The Human &
Civil Rights Awards
Student Writing,
Art and Computer Contests
Christopher K.
Smith Memorial Scholarship for Future Teachers
is also
at the same page.
For information
about the student video contest to promote Reading and Read Across
America is here. Its deadline is February 12,
2010.
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YOUR VOTE
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General Assembly
reconvenes this week
What's on the minds of the General Assembly? Another year
with a projected loss in revenue, currently around $325 million, less
than last year's $900 million, but still significant for a state our
size.
For daily updates, go to Tim Barchak's blog, One Fight More
at http://onefightmore.blogspot.com.
Are you on FACEBOOK? So is DSEA. Get immediate updates, information
and perspective, and comment with your colleagues on our DSEA FACEBOOK
page.
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