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The MEA is only as strong as its members’ voices. Through the Association, you are able to have a voice in decisions made regarding your career, your students and the profession as a whole. MEA advocates for policies that advance the mission of great public schools for every Maine student. Including your voice in the process that strengthens our schools and in turn improves the education for all our students.
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Fund Maine’s Future – MEA/UMaine System Lobby Day –Tuesday March 18th
REGISTER HERE Count me in! I am ready to lobby legislators to support the UMaine System and to encourage our legislators to support more funding for the UMaine System. I will be there on Tuesday March 18th at 8:30am! REGISTER HERE
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Legislative Organizing Committee: The MEA is committed to making sure the voices of our members are heard when legislation that impacts our schools is debated in the State House. To that end, we are forming a Legislative Organizing...
Maine Needs to Increase the Minimum Teacher Salary
TAKE ACTION All over Maine, schools are struggling to find qualified teachers. If we want high quality public schools in every community, we need high quality teachers in every school. Please ask them to prioritize funding and passing LD 34: An Act to...
Your Voice is Needed!
SIGN UP! MEA's Legislative Organizing Committee is a group of member advocates and leaders from across the state working together to engage in moving MEA's legislative priorities forward. This group meets with MEA's Government Relations Director, Jan Kosinski,...
Fund Maine’s Future
TAKE ACTION It is Time to Fund Maine's Future and Invest in Our Universities Now more than ever, we need the state to increase funding for the UMaine System. Put simply, our state's financial support for the UMaine System has decline precipitously over decades...
Thank You to our Members of Congress!
SEND YOUR EMAIL WEP/GPO REPEALED! Send a thank you to our members of Congress. President Biden signed into law the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act, which repeals the unfair GPO and WEP provisions. This is a huge win for educators and public service...
Under the Dome Updates
Under the Dome 3/21/25: Trump Executive Order, Budget, and Mentoring Update
President Trump’s Executive Order Regarding the US Department of Education:Here it is . . . after weeks of speculation, President Donald Trump has followed through on his campaign promise and has signed an Executive Order to begin the process of closing the United...
Under the Dome: Mentorship, Vouchers, US Department of Education Update and More
Dear MEA Members – Your MEA leadership and staff have been working around the clock monitoring the actions of the Legislature, testifying, and lobbying on dozens of bills each week. The session schedule is daunting, but we are committed to supporting bills that...
Busy Week Ahead
Dear MEA Members –MEA staff and member leaders are hard at work in our Legislature. The Education Committee, the Labor Committee, the Appropriations Committee, and others are all working through the hundreds of bills that have been submitted for this session.MEA...
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Legislative Lobbying
Our legislative program lobbies the Maine Legislature and Congress for school funding, education laws that make sense and more. Lawmakers need to hear from the experts in our schools and when you can’t be there MEA leadership and staff ensure lawmakers understand the impact of proposed policies on your work and on your students.
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Because of MEA’s presence, in the last few years, some of the success include:
- Hundreds of Millions more in education funding
- Elimination of the testing mandate tied to teacher evaluations
- Changes to the Rules of Restraint and Seclusion to make them manageable/realistic for educators
Why is the MEA involved in politics? Why should educators worry about who gets elected? Here are three good answers:
- Protection of public schools is a fundamental task of the Association. With repeated political attacks on our schools at the state and national level, educators must defend their programs and MEA has led the way in proclaiming the success of Maine schools and defeating attempts to displace public schools as the cornerstone of our democracy.
- Funding for K-12 schools, the University of Maine, and Technical College Systems is largely dependent upon the goodwill of state legislators. The health and prosperity of your program, salary, and benefits is directly tied to votes on school funding. MEA is a strong proponent for more funding and is often the only voice for student needs.
- What you teach and how you do your job is the result of political decisions. If MEA isn’t involved, decisions about school curricula, teaching methodologies, student assessment, and graduation requirements will be made without regard for educator interests.
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