Fayette County KEA members vote for an ethnic minority seat on the Board of Directors May 17-May 22, 2012.
The 2012 General Assembly authorized a two year state budget and several education related bills.
Jump Start, Home Stretch, NBCT Renewal and Mentor Training are all part of KEA’s program to support National Board candidates, their mentors, NBCTs and the school districts that provide candidate support programs.
Principal selection training by KEA is available at no cost to school councils.
KEA has long been a provider of quality school-based decision making training. Councils interested in KEA providing their SBDM training should contact the KEA UniServ director who works with their school district.
KEA will offer training on June 19 and 20, 2012 for teams of local association officers who want to increase their knowledge of the Association and develop their leadership skills. The deadline for registration is Friday, June 1st.
The KEA program will be held at the Embassy Suites in Lexington, June 19-20, 2012.
Christopher Swanson from Quality Counts presentated a critical look at the nation’s place among the world’s public schooling systems to the KEA delegates.
KEA delegates and alternates were elected to attend the 2012 NEA Representative Assembly.
Vickie Bramlett, Corbin Education Association President presented a KEA scholarship check to Whitney Allen.
Commissioner Holliday talks in his blog this week about teacher satisfaction, school funding, and demands on teachers.
KEA members in Carter County collected more than a ton of donated supplies for families displaced by the March 2 tornadoes and transported them to a distribution center in Menifee County this week. All KEA members are urged to help with the relief efforts by making tax-deductible contributions to the NEA Health Information Network Disaster Relief Fund.
HumanaVitality is part of the Personnel Cabinet's worksite wellness initiative. The bus tour begins the week of Feb. 27.
Thanks to the hard work of school employees across the state, Kentucky jumped from 34th in 2011 to 14th in 2012.
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.
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.
KEA Student Program members at the University of Kentucky hosted third annual "Arts for Smarts" day.
The membership grants are available for KEA locals to assist with local plans in developing membership plans for 2011-2012.
The Coalition of Partners (including KEA) will get state level results at the same time schools and districts get their results on April 25.
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.
Eastern Kentucky Education Association Continuing Education Scholarship application deadline December 31, 2010 for Summer/Fall sessions.
If you are a classified member of KEA/EKEA and are pursuing a teaching degree, apply for the scholarship by December 31.
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.
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.
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.
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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