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• YOUR REWARD •
Two State Pension Workshops
remain: tonight plus April 19 and April 20
Every year the State Pension Office offers free informational sessions on
the state pension system to help you prepare for retirement.
There’s a session tonight April 12, 7-9pm at Brandywine High School.
The final sessions are April 19, 7-9pm at the Delaware State Troopers
Association, Messina Hill Road off of N. DuPont Hwy in Cheswold; and April
20, 7-9pm at Stanton Middle School on Limestone Road, Wilmington.
Register today for DSEA’s annual
Human and Civil Rights Banquet
It’s May 12 at the Dover Sheraton’s Sauvignon Room. Tickets are $36.
This is a most festive evening when we honor student winners in our art and
writing contests.
And this year we have an outstanding Human and Civil Rights Awardee: Reuben Salters,
well-known community leader in Dover; long-time Dover Councilman; founder
of Dover’s African American Festival, the Inner City Cultural League, and
the Sankofa African Dance Company.
Questions? Contact Betty Cash at betty.cash@dsea.org or at
1-866-734-5834.
ESP Conference set
for October 22: make sure it helps you
If you are an ESP member of DSEA – a school secretary, paraprofessional,
aide, food service worker, bus driver, bus aide, custodian – please take a
few minutes to answer two questions to help the planning committee put
together the best conference possible.
Go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/ESP2011
or simply email your answers to Debbie Stevens, DSEA, 136 E. Water St.,
Dover, DE 19901.
1. Think
about the best training you ever attended. What was that training, and what
made it so good?
2. What
sort of programs (topics and types of programs, i.e., discussions,
speakers, training) would excite you to attend?
Complete
this survey and be one of two members to receive a $100 gift card!
Mastering Your
Money May 4 and May 5: Come learn how to really reduce debt and save your
hard-earned money
Free to all DSEA members and their families, 5-6:30
May 4 at DSEA Dover office; May 5 at DSEA New Castle County Office
Directions
Sponsored by DSEA and NEA Member Benefits
Fill
in and fax or mail this form to guarantee your seat.
Pizza and beverages will be provided.
2011
Theme Park discounts now available
Log in at http://www.dsea.org/
and click on Discount List found in the About DSEA section.
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• YOUR FUTURE
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Our State
Workers Coalition agreement on health care and pension changes moves from
DE House to Senate
It’s HB 81, which DSEA supports.
Read
a summary here.
Through the Coalition of State Workers United for a
Better Delaware we negotiated no reduction in anyone’s pension or health
care benefits.
While not painless, the agreement held the State to
its commitment to provide same level of pension and health care benefits.
You may have to pay a little more or wait a little longer, but benefits
will be there when you need them. This applies to all DSEA members, those
in education plus those who work for state agencies.
What do you think?
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•
YOUR COLLEAGUES •
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Around the
country: April Fool's Political Lowlights
We wish we were kidding.… a recap of the recent
anti-public
education and anti-public worker activity in
many states, from
NEA’s Education Votes web page.
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•
YOUR PROFESSION •
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DoE
sponsors Teacher Day Essay Contest for students
Students encouraged to thank their teachers, win
prizes
There are prizes for winning teachers, too, including Sec. Lillian Lowery
taking your class for half a day. Check it out here: http://www.dsea.org/PDF/TeacherDayContest2011.pdf.
Deadline for essays is April 22!
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Collect
Blue Ribbons for Universal Basic Education:
Deadline April 18.
Not
much time here. We were just notified that NEA has joined The Global
Campaign for Education-U.S. in a Blue Ribbon Campaign for basic education
for all children around the world. Children across the country are making
chains of paper ribbons to be strung together for a major Washington, DC,
press event. The deadline for the ribbons: April 18. Read more and
download the “Lesson for All” toolkit at: http://www.nea.org/home/43184.htm
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• YOU AND
YOUR COLLEAGUES •
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 Future
Teacher Benefit Golf Tournament June 24, Maple Dale Country Club, south
of Dover
Click
here for all the information and to sign up. Get your foursome
together. This tournament is perfect for the occasional player. You don’t
have to be a star golfer. After all, it’s a benefit for our Future
Teacher Scholarship Fund. Read
all about it.
Prizes, dinner, give-aways, all to benefit our Christopher K. Smith Future
Teacher Scholarship Fund.
Check out the
photos recently added to our collection of DSEA-sponsored events at www.flickr.com/photos/dsea -
- Leadership Conference
sponsored by the DSEA Ethnic Minority Task Force at Delaware State
University
- DSEA Representative
Assembly at Dover Downs
- DSEA Celebration Dinner
at Dover Downs
- Winter Advocacy Retreat
at the Beach
It's easy to copy, print, download.
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Facebook?
Join other DSEA members at www.facebook.com/dseafan.
 Check
out our community web page:
www.greatschoolsgreatcommunities.com.
In
addition to news, there are lots of tips for students and parents to
share.
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