Thinking about retiring?
Learn all about the Early Retirement Incentive Program
Mark your calendar for March 10th
A meeting to explain the Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP), covered under Article 18 of the Negotiated Agreement between CCEA and CCSD, has been scheduled. To accommodate your schedule, two sessions have been organized.
Federal Lawmakers Announce Plan for a
Bipartisan Overhaul of Education Law
Your feedback is needed by March 26
Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Education and Labor Committee made an announcement on February 19 about their plans for a bipartisan reform of the nation’s primary federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)–currently known as No Child Left Behind. US Representatives George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the committee, John Kline (R-MN), the senior Republican of the committee, Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), the chairman of the subcommittee on elementary and secondary education, and Michael N. Castle (R-DE), the senior Republican of that subcommittee, issued the following joint statement:
Teaching & Learning Conditions Survey
Online survey coming soon
The 2010 Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey will take place April 7 – May 14. This comprehensive online survey tool allows every licensed person located at a school site the opportunity to voice a candid opinion about how time, leadership, decision making, facilities & resources and professional development affect working conditions at their school.
Women’s History Month
2010 Theme: Writing Women Back into History
This year will be the 30th anniversary of the National Women’s History Project (NWHP). When it began mobilizing the lobbying effort that resulted in President Carter issuing a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980 as the first National Women’s History Week, NWHP had no idea what the future would bring. And then, in 1987, another successful lobbying effort resulted in Congress expanding the week into a month, and March is now National Women’s History Month.
Celebrating Music in Our Schools Month!
This March, Let The Music Ring
March has been officially designated by MENC: The National Association for Music Education for the observance of Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM®), the time of year when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation.
March is National Nutrition Month
Get your class involved!
National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.
Legislators Pass Race to The Top Language
Contact them today to say THANK YOU!
As part of our lobbying efforts, we ask you to contact your legislators and thank them for their support on Race to the Top language changes, which protect evaluation language. In spite of the governor’s proposals, the legislature worked hard to back Nevada’s educators and for that…we thank them!
If you were a dues paying member of CCEA for the calendar year January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009, the itemized miscellaneous dues deduction that you may be able to deduct on your 2009 tax return is $704.48.
In just about every TV channel or radio station you tune into, or magazine you read, you find the catchy “go green” slogan or a version of it. At CCEA it is not a slogan — we practice it every day by shredding and recycling all paper, plastic, and aluminum products we use in the operation of the Association. And now, we are stepping it up a notch — inviting you to take part in this process.