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Feb 5, 2025 | 
veanea.org | Tom Allen |Reilly Bradshaw
By Tom AllenIt wasn’t an easy road to a collective bargaining agreement for members of the Falls Church City Education Association, but staying on it led to reaping some significant benefits.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
2025 is an odd-numbered year and that means it’s a short General Assembly session, just 45 days. The short session was cut even shorter since the first week was lost due to a water outage in Richmond and this second full week of session saw several committees in both chambers holding extra meetings to work through mountains of bills.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
VEA Learning Portal NEW VEA Learning Portal Course Catalog! This catalog is designed to serve as a guide to the courses* offered on the VEA Learning Portal. It allows members and potential members to view courses available for enrollment without the need to log into the Portal. Check out the VEA Learning Portal Course Catalog here!*Note: All courses on the VEA Learning Portal are asynchronous, unless otherwise indicated.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
“I am deeply honored to receive the VEA Fund endorsement,” Spanberger said. “I believe in the power of public education to uplift our communities and create opportunities for every child in Virginia.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
Carol Bauer, president of the Virginia Education Association, issued the following statement in response to the release of Governor Youngkin’s proposed state budget for the remainder of the biennium: “Despite billions of dollars in available revenue from recent reforecasts, Governor Youngkin’s proposed budget fails to deliver the bold investments our public schools desperately need, making no new ongoing state investments in public schools other than required technical updates and small...
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
Educators, Organizations to be Honored with VEA Awards December 17, 2024 Association members, other individuals, and lots of organizations are going above and beyond on behalf of public schools, students, and educators, and the VEA believes such effort should not go unnoticed or unrewarded. To be sure it doesn’t, VEA’s annual awards program honors efforts made on behalf of our young people and our schools, and so nominations are now open for the following VEA awards: Friend of Education...
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
By Olivia GehoThanks to the Virginia legislature’s ending of the more-than-40-year-ban on public employee bargaining in our state, you may be new to the idea of thinking of your VEA membership as being part of a union—or, if you’ve joined since, new to being in a union. As a member, you belong to your local VEA affiliate; your state affiliate, the VEA; and our nationwide affiliate, the National Education Association, whose 3 million members make it the largest labor union in America.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
A Prince William County teacher and her young students walk through the horrors of conflict in the Middle East together December 17, 2024 The Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” certainly applied to me this past school year. I teach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students and I primarily work with second- and third-graders. I truly love this age group. They are fun, loving, and at times, hysterically funny. The world is their oyster. After 20 years of teaching,...
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
veanea.org | Reilly Bradshaw
Raising Our Voices: VEA member-leaders speak out publicly for students and educators December 17, 2024 If you want positive change, if you need something for your colleagues, your students, and yourself, you have to let people know. The chances of educators’ issues being addressed to everyone’s satisfaction without our intervention is somewhere between nil and zip. Across the Commonwealth, VEA members are being proactive—speaking up in public forums, like before school boards and other...
