Gloucester Education Association: Black Friday

Gloucester Education Association

Friday, March 21, 2014

Black Friday

Black Friday was a huge success, thank you to all who participated!

*photo: GHS teachers and ESPs sporting black to encourage funding for our schools.

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About GEA!!

Home
Join GEA!
Meet the GEA EB
Mark your Calendar
GCPS Civility Policy

About Me

View my complete profile

Who is viewing the blog?

Become a Cyber Lobbyist!!

Important Links

Colonial UniServ, District 19
VEA General Assembly Daily Reports
Virginia Education Association

Contact Us

GEA: mygeavea@gmail.com
President Brian McGovern: bmcgovern@gc.k12.va.us
Vice President Clint Alexander: calexand@gc.k12.va.us
Secretary Jennifer Rowe: jennifer.rowe@gc.k12.va.us
Treasurer Jackie Outten: joutten@gc.k12.va.us
Norm Brown (UniServ Director): NBrown@veanea.org

Blog Archive

Black Friday

Black Friday

GHS teacher's show their support for public education

What has GEA done for you?

Notable GEA Accomplishments 2011-2012. We are ALL responsible for these accomplishments:

· 7.725% increase covering all of the 5% VRS mandate plus an additional 2% COLA. No other division in District received a COLA this year.

· GEA effectively lobbied for no layoffs.

· GEA and Past President Carolyn Molly were the 2012 recipients of the VEA Activism Award given at the VEA Convention.

· With the help of the fundraising efforts by the Demuth family, GEA was able to award three GEA Sally Demuth Memorial Scholarship awards.

· GEA helped to lobby against the end of continuing contracts and decreased state funding.

· GEA had huge participation in Black Thursday—2/17/2012 and appeared on TV.

Proposed GEA goals for the coming year:

· Improved professional treatment.

· 3% COLA for 2013-2014.

· Emphasize and strategize outreach to ESP’s.

· Increase net membership by 30.

· Increase to 180 day school year.

· Forever end the drive to eliminate continuing contracts.

· Convince local legislators to fulfill their constitutional obligation to appropriately support public education.

· Further the positive relationships with administration and members of the school board and board of supervisors.

· Assist the Demuth family with fundraising efforts for the scholarship program.

· Research pros/cons of statewide cooperative health care plan in which all 132 school division could participate but with an “opt out” option.

· Improve the image of GEA as a professional organization which has active members of both major parties as well as independents;

· Should educate members, non- members, and the general public that GEA is an organization which strongly promotes the ideals of public education in the political arena, but does not promote any particular partisan agenda.

Powered by Blogger.