Only 25 percent of all Michigan educators – and just 20 percent of teachers – would recommend a career in education to a young person they know, according to results released Wednesday from a statewide educator survey conducted last month.

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MEA member Marti Alvarez makes a distinction between her job at Traverse City Area Public Schools and her reason for being.



She is employed as a bus driver, but she is driven by a goal to help students be successful human

Yvonne Williams wants MEA’s Education Support Professionals to banish a word from their vocabulary: “Justa.”

“It would not be unusual to hear one of our colleagues say I am justa bus driver, I’m justa secretary or I’m justa custodian,” the recently

This year’s winner of “Best in Show” at the 55th Annual MEA/MAEA Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition is an artist and teacher who exemplifies the circle of life in education.

Josh Gove, a first-year elementary art teacher in St. Johns, says he