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• YOUR REWARD •
Defensive
Driving Classes set for March and April
Save
money on car insurance
March 26 Minority
Leadership Conference, Delaware State University
Learn from each other.
Sign
up today.
Join colleagues on
DSEA's Facebook
page
Our
Facebook page registered 34,571 impressions in February alone! This is
where we post immediate updates on everything-DSEA.
Check out our public web site,
Great Schools Great Communities which has tips for
students as well as updates on Race to the Top.
It also allows folks to e-mail legislators as well as send in letters to
the editor to the News Journal and the Delaware State News.
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• YOUR VOICE •
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What can we do?
....
To show our support for colleagues struggling with bargaining rights
issues, payroll deduction rights taken away, etc. ---
NEA’s Education
Votes page
http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/nationalpetition
Go here to sign a petition in support of our colleagues fighting
anti-union legislation in their states. Sign up for the Education Votes
tweets. Make a donation to the NEA PAC. Read updates on what’s happening.
And leave your comments about the day’s events and your support.
50
states. One Voice. The 51 fund.
In tandem with that, NEA has created a site where you can make contributions
that NEA will use to advocate and educate about legislation in various
states aimed at reducing or eliminating the collective bargaining rights
of public employees. Anyone, by the way, can make donations here –
Association members as well as the public.
http://51fund.neafoundation.org
Wear Red on Tuesdays: “Wear Red for Ed”
NEA is urging all members to wear something red on Tuesdays as a show of
solidarity with all NEA members, especially those in bargaining battle
states.
Take
a poll: Do you support Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker?
Newsmax.com is conducting a public poll. Vote! http://www.newsmax.com/surveys/SupportGovScottWalker/Do-You-Support-Gov--Scott-Walker-/id/9/kw/default/?promo_code=BBB2-1
April
4, 2010 – National NEA Day of ACTION
Do something together, as a unit, a union. Show your solidarity.
April 4 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s
assassination. Advocacy groups across America will remember King’s
courage and in one voice, will speak out for workers’ rights and
students’ futures. This day, 43 years ago (1968), Dr. King was in
Memphis, TN to support striking sanitation workers.
We encourage you to talk to colleagues in your local about
observing this important day some time during the week of April
4.
Here are some suggestions, but that's all they are, suggestions:
Hold ‘teach-ins’ in your schools
Gather with parents for a celebration of King’s activism and a reminder
of our own opportunities to speak out against injustice.
See if anyone in your community is already planning an event and how
you and your colleagues can join that effort.
Find other ideas and updates at: http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/weareone/.
Stay tuned for more information from DSEA about possible county or
statewide activities.
We
are One. Find the latest on what’s going on around the country at
Education Votes, as well as at:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/03/14/united-to-support-wisconsin-workers/
http://www.facebook.com/werunited?sk=wall?source=splashweareone
Go to
www.facebook.com/dseafan
for links to the Facebook pages of Protect
Wisconsin Families and Stand Up for Ohio.
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•
YOUR ASSOCIATION •
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RA Highlights
This
past weekend, DSEA held its official annual meeting, what we call the Representative Assembly (RA).
It was relatively quiet, with much of the backdrop of DSEA business being
knowledge of the disturbing events in other states, where our colleagues
are having collective bargaining rights taken away by their
legislators:
- Heard update from Jeff
Taschner, DSEA's general counsel; Tim Barchak, dir. of legislation
and political organizing; and Judy Anderson, business
manager, on how our Coalition of State Workers United talks
with state officials are going regarding finding savings to
health care, pension and OPEB expenses. They are more optimistic
than previously, hopeful that we will have an agreement soon, one
that will protect the benefits and pensions of career state workers.
- Passed a two-year budget
- Adopted Resolutions that
conform with NEA resolutions
- Honored awardees at
Celebration Dinner Friday night www.dsea.org/AboutDSEA/DSEARA.html
- Heard from Senator Chris
Coons, Gov. Jack Markell and Congressman John Carney
- Kent County delegates
elected Clay
Beauchamp of Lake Forest to a vacant two-year seat
on the DSEA Exec. Board. His term begins September 1.
Go to
the DSEA RA page for more on the actions and speeches from the RA
at www.dsea.org/AboutDSEA/DSEARA.html
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• OUR FUTURE •
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Forty
years ago United States lowered voting age to 18
Sign
up for lesson plans, video, etc. to share the 26th Amendment
with high school students.
Forty
years ago, educators and students stood together and fought to lower the
voting age to 18. In doing so, they amended the Constitution and
empowered millions of American citizens to have a say in our democracy.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the 26th Amendment
(March 23), Rock the Vote, in partnership with the National Education
Association, is announcing the first annual Democracy Day.
Democracy
Class is a 45-minute, non-partisan lesson plan geared towards high school
students that teaches them the history of voting rights, walks them
through the voter registration process, and engages them in a mock
election.
Check
out how you can bring Democracy Class to your school between now and the
end of the academic year and make it a day that students never forget.
Educators will receive a free toolkit which includes a lesson plan,
video, t-shirts, buttons, a banner for your classroom and a commemorative
poster. Rock the Vote is also offering educators that participate an
opportunity to win an iPad and other great prizes. You can sign up at http://democracyday.com
<http://democracyday.com/>.
Feel free to e-mail Rock the Vote at info@democracyclass.com with
any questions.
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