Educating With Pride!
Knowing Your Rights and Being Yourself
The goal of this CEA workshop is to educate LGBTQ+ educators and
allies on their rights in and out of the classroom and discuss how
best to support themselves, colleagues, and students.
Register for the Monday, March 27th workshop by sending an email to: rsvp@cea.org. Conard High School, Room #169 from 4:00 – 6:30 pm.
Register for the virtual Wednesday, May 10th 4:00 pm workshop at: cea.org/event/cea-pride-
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Legislative – Our goal this year is to have all members email their elected officials. Here is the LINK for legislator look-ups.
The following are a list of Concept Bills that are advancing the CEA legislative priorities. The senators and representatives that are supporting these bills are listed next to each item. These are the legislators that we need to lobby to get these bills passed.
Proposed Concept Bills Advancing CEA Priorities:
Senate Bill 1: Education Transparency (Senator Looney)
House Bill 5003: Educational Funding (Representative Curry)
Pension Covid Credit (Representative Doucette)
END EdTpa (Representative Sanchez)
Student Loan Tax Credits (Representative Sanchez)
Providing Tuition Assistance (Representatives Paris and Exum)
Review Statewide Standardized Assessments (Representatives Poulos, Brown, and Howard)
Implementing Recommendations of School IAQ Workshop (Senator Kushnew and Representative Leeper)
Providing School IAQ- Indoor Air Quality (Senator Anwar)
Raise Kindergarten State Age (Representatives Brown and Foster)
Increase Funding For Bi-Lingual Education (Representative Sanchez)
Addressing Educator Safety (Representative Cook)
Suspend Foundations of Reading Survey (Senator Miller)
Teacher Certification Provision (Representative Gibson)
Your voice matters! One of the best ways you can advocate for educational change is by contacting your local legislators. Not sure what to write? Check out this great resource for tips and sample letters.
