The following list of bills will be up for review by the committee I serve on at State Council. If you are interested in having your concerns/feelings about these bills addressed at State Council, please let me know what they are. There are links provided to the complete language for each bill. The meeting is [...]
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Finally, some progress is being made with the legislation to repeal the Social Security Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision: The Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy, chaired by Senator Kerry (D-MA), has announced that they will hold a hearing on the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision on Tuesday, [...]
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California Teachers Association Please follow this link to open a pdf file with more information. Speaker Nancy Pelosi San Francisco Office Phone (415) 556-4862 Washington DC Phone (202) 225-4965 Congressman George Miller Concord Office Phone (925) 602-1880 Washington DC Phone (202) 225-2095
If you are interested in seeing the text of the proposed legislation, check out edworkforce.house.gov, the site for the Committee on Education and Labor. All of their current legislation is viewable.
Your help needed: The reauthorization of ESEA/NCLB is progressing very rapidly in the Senate. It looks like mark up in October. In an attempt to get the kind of changes in the law that will positively impact our members NEA is asking your help to get Senate cosponsors on two bills: The Improving Student Testing [...]
Please visit our NEA website to participate in the legislative action being taken in response to the current iteration of NCLB under consideration.