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The Michigan Education Association (MEA), headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan, is a labor union representing more than 157,000 teachers, faculty and education support staff throughout the state. [1] Usually referred to as a “teachers' union” its membership also includes college faculty, public school custodians, bus drivers, and ...
Janus v. AFSCME (2018) Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977), was a US labor law case where the United States Supreme Court upheld the maintaining of a union shop in a public workplace. Public school teachers in Detroit had sought to overturn the requirement that they pay fees equivalent to union dues on the grounds that they ...
General meeting, National Education Association on July 3, 1916, at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. [2] It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and ...
The battle over union households in Michigan is particularly important given that Biden won the state by less than 3 percentage points in 2020. ... a 36-year-old teachers union member from Davison ...
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association). The union was founded in Chicago. John Dewey and Margaret Haley were founders. [2][3][4][5]
December 1, 2023 at 11:17 AM. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gives fives after taking a photo with first-grade students after stopping in their classroom during a visit at Forest Park Elementary ...
The State Board of Education was first provided for in the Constitution of 1850 and currently exists through the provisions of Article VIII, Section 3, of the Constitution of 1963. The state board is composed of eight members [ 2 ] nominated by party conventions and elected at-large for terms of eight years, with two members being elected at ...
Kathleen N. Straus. Kathleen Nagler Straus (born December 3, 1923) served as a member of the Michigan State Board of Education from 1993–2016. She has been continuously involved in civic organizations in Michigan, since moving to Detroit in 1952. [ 1] Her volunteer and professional roles have included the Presidency of the League of Women ...