MEA Sponsors Walk for Autism

MEA will be a sponsor of the 17th Walk for Autism will be held on April 28th in five locations:  Bangor, Biddeford, Portland, Farmington and Fryeburg.  You can help this important organization by signing up to walk and raise funds or by volunteering. For more...
Screen-Free Week and Children’s Book Week

Screen-Free Week and Children’s Book Week

Screen-Free Week and Children’s Book Week are April 29th to May 5th. Want your school to celebrate these?  For more information, go to: https://commercialfreechildhood.org/  and http://everychildareader.net/cbw/ Screen-Free Week – CCFC’s Quick Reference...
“The Kids We Lose” Documentary Viewings

“The Kids We Lose” Documentary Viewings

The documentary “The Kids We Lose” is about children with behavioral challenges and the struggles the adults in their lives face.  There are viewings in Maine!  The showings are as follows: Presque Isle on April 23rd Houlton April 25th Windham May 1st Lewiston May 8th...
Notes from the MEA Board of Director’s Meeting

Notes from the MEA Board of Director’s Meeting

The MEA of Board of Director’s reviewed the items coming before the 2019 MEA Representative Assembly (proposed amendments to the MEA Constitution/Bylaws/Standing Rules and Resolutions, New Business Items, and transmitted the proposed Strategic Budget); heard an...
Legislative Hearing Update

Legislative Hearing Update

March has been a busy month, filled with legislative hearings.  MEA’s Executive Director Paula Voelker, Government Relations Director John Kosinski, Collective Bargaining and Research Director CJ Betit, General Counsel Andrew Mason and MEA President Grace Leavitt have...
MEA #RedforEd Day at the State House

MEA #RedforEd Day at the State House

#RedforEd on April 17th!  Sign up NOW Join MEA members, family and friends in Augusta on April 17 at 9am to help make a difference and move our profession forward!  There are hearings that day on LD 900—the right to strike—and LD 1370—to protect educators from...