Thanks to the hard work of school employees across the state, Kentucky jumped from 34th in 2011 to 14th in 2012.
NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and the KEA Education Support Professional of the Year Award deadlines have been extended until March 15.
Governor Beshear issued an open to educators explaining the major points of his budget proposal.
The Prichard Committee has recently posted on its blog its examination of the data that KARE uses.
HumanaVitality is part of the Personnel Cabinet's worksite wellness initiative.
KEA, as a member of KEAT, calls on the General Assembly to adequately fund teachers’ professional development.
Educators recognize Gov. Beshear’s efforts to improve public schools. Watch the presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7HhLY4OgQ
The more your school enters, the greater your chance of winning.
Working with the New Teacher Center, KEA has created a KEA Guide to Using Your TELL Kentucky Results.
Six KEA National Board Jump Start Seminars are being offered in a location close to you this summer and fall.
As you plan in your locals for 2011-2012, please utilize the STAR Locals information in developing your membership plans.
The membership grants are available for KEA locals to assist with local plans in developing membership plans for 2011-2012.
KEA Student Program members at the University of Kentucky hosted third annual "Arts for Smarts" day.
The Coalition of Partners (including KEA) will get state level results at the same time schools and districts get their results on April 25.
Results for the 2011 NEA Delegate Election are posted in this hot topic.
NEA has created a new campaign in an effort to address the epidemic of bullying and the consequences that go along with it.
Kentucky educators stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama and elsewhere.
With continued threats against school employee pensions the NEA has valuable information for school employees...
KEA strongly encourages groups of members interested in exploring unification to follow the process outlined in the article.
EdWeek released its 2011 Quality Counts report, offering highly respected grades of states on multiple aspects of education conditions, policies, and results.
Vote today and every day for The Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky's Pepsi Refresh Project.
KEA President Sharron Oxendine, Governor Steve Beshear and Education Commissioner Dr. Terry Holliday were the featured speakers at a ceremony held in the state capitol rotunda September 28 to kick off the Teaching, Empowering, Learning and Leading Kentucky Survey, which will be conducted online March 1-25, 2011, to get the opinions of all Kentucky teachers about the teaching and learning conditions in Kentucky’s public schools.
Three important notices regarding your 2011 KEHP benefit plan are available. Please read each notice carefully.
Welcome your students back to school with free resources that will engage and excite them.
Catie certainly never imagined she would end up in the nation’s capital at a press conference for the national media with NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan and members of Congress.
Abbey Kuhn, a fourth grade teacher at Kenton Elementary School, is the Kentucky PTA’s 2010 Certified Educator of the Year and Donnie Barnett, Kenton’s Building Operations Supervisor, is its 2010 Classified Personnel of the Year.
As a result of language in the 2010 budget bill, all Executive Branch employees are subject to furlough during the 2010-11 fiscal year.
KEA provided testimony before the Interim Joint Committee on Education on Monday, August 8.
Activate your KEA membership card today to enjoy discount savings with NEA Click & Save.
The NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN) is conducting a web site assessment.
A special Member Assistance page on the NEA MB website, neamb.com, provides details about resources to that could potentially help NEA members and their families affected by loss of income.
SB 1 requires a school's SBDM Council to develop the school's writing policy and plan. KDE has posted resources to help SBDM Councils complete this task.
Active and retired K-12 public school teachers are asked to describe their most memorable experiences as teachers.
Helen Cottongim, the Boone County school bus driver and long-time leader KEA leader and activist has been named NEA’s 2010 ESP of the Year.
KEA now has available a limited supply of the “African Americans Who Made Kentucky History” reference card sets.
In the interest of helping school employees and pre-service teachers protect their careers. KEA has compiled a list of Social Networking "Dos" and "Do Nots".
Download the application for the KEA Presidents' Scholarship in Files associated with this Hot Topic to apply for up to $1000 in scholarship money to complete certification in the following areas:
The video features two KEA members, Jim Sproul, KEA Retired President, and Elise Mohon, KEA's NEA Board of Director.
(Column from KEA News, January 2010, by Mary Ann Blankenship, KEA Executive Director)
Proponents of charter schools see them as the solution to Kentucky’s education ills. For Kentucky’s children to be successful, however, KEA believes we should focus together on funding all Kentucky public schools for all children rather than diverting our attention to an unproven strategy that eliminates oversight and accountability. Read the entire article in Files associated with this Hot Topic.
Kentucky Education Association President Sharron Oxendine tonight called Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s proposed budget “the best he could do, given the condition of the state budget and the present dismal revenue forecast.” See Files associated with this Hot Topic for KEA's press release regarding the proposed budget.
KEA has proposed both immediate relief from CATS and the longer range creation of a better system of student testing and accountability.
KEA supports efforts to assist schools affected by this year’s ice storm and high winds from Hurricane Ike.
NEA supports repeal of the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which penalize some public employees by cutting or taking away completely Social Security benefits they or their spouse earned.
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