Educators across the state and nation are coming together to find innovative solutions for e-learning, despite a lack of support from Betsy DeVos and the Trump Administration, wrote MEA member Chris Thomas, a teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools, in a recent column for Bridge Magazine. “Through the platforms and networks of MEA and NEA,” […]
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continues to duck responsibility for keeping students and school employees safe from coronavirus, telling an audience gathered Tuesday for a right-wing conference that it’s not her job to track school districts’ COVID-19 cases or reopening plans. DeVos, known by experts as “the worst” education secretary in U.S. history, told attendees […]
By Chris Thomas During a visit last month to a private school in Michigan, amid a global pandemic that has disrupted every aspect of American life, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called remote learning “a tragedy.” As a veteran educator who has spent years exploring the vast possibilities of blended learning and educational technology, I […]
By PAULA HERBART/President – Michigan Education Association In this election, our democracy is on the ballot. Our nation has a strong history of conducting free and fair elections, even in the most difficult times. During the Civil War, the fate of our nation — whether we would remain the “United” States — was in doubt, […]
By Andy Jarema In the weeks leading up to the start of the school year, I felt great anxiety as COVID-19 continued to rage across Michigan and the first day of school neared. That feeling deepened when my district decided to begin in-person learning less than a month after we began the school year remotely. […]
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that school employees who had 3 percent of their salary illegally withheld by the state from 2010-12 are not entitled to be paid additional interest on the money. The decision is the latest twist in a long-running legal saga that grew out of the 3 percent case, which […]
With an opponent supported by millions of dollars from a DeVos family-funded super PAC, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters says he has appreciated the support of MEA in this “election of a lifetime.” “Everybody who cares deeply about public education has to know that all of the issues we care about and fought for over many […]
With the volume of ads about the Presidential and Senate races in Michigan, it’s easy to forget that there are critical statewide races down the ballot that impact our students and members. In particular, we have great candidates this year for the Michigan Supreme Court and the four statewide education boards. RSVP now to hear […]
More than 60,000 MEA members have requested absentee ballots, and over 12,000 have already completed and returned their ballots, based on publicly available numbers from the Secretary of State. Are you one of them? If not, there’s still time to Vote from Home. Voting from home is easy — and much safer than lining up […]
By Randi Trumble As a Lansing School District nurse, my face is the first one my students see after returning from recess with scraped knees or cuts and when they report having stomach aches, runny noses or sore throats. When we return for in-person learning, I’ll have another role: The first line of response if […]
