While educators work hard amid big challenges to provide all students a great public education, some politicians and groups are stoking fear and division with extreme rhetoric and proposals to restrict classroom speech and learning.
In this series, MEA Voice Editor Brenda Ortega shares five powerful individual stories that together reveal the detrimental effects of anti-LGBTQ laws and rhetoric on students and educators.
By Erik Edoff, Senior Executive Director, Michigan Education Association Smaller class sizes and caseloads. More individual attention and connection between each student and the educators who support them. Respect and communication between school and home, at every grade level. Educators know elements like these are always essential for student learning. Right now, they’re critical […]
By Dan Clason Clason, an MEA member in Clarkston, is the 2026 MEA Educational Excellence Award winner and Michigan’s nominee for the NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence. He’s a prime example of how educational excellence and collective action go hand-in-hand — especially when it comes to the power of contributing to PAC. Attacks on public education […]
