Cambridge Education Association

Vote YES on Question 2!

Get a Yard Sign!

Let us know at the CEA (contact Joel Patterson at [email protected]) that you want a yard sign, and we will get one to you! Be sure to include your name, address, phone number, and email.

Canvass!
MTA is organizing canvassing in many towns and cities across the state. You can connect with them here:https://www.mobilize.us/massteacher/?event_type=2&event_type=25
You can also arrange your own canvassing event or get specific "turf" to canvass by sending Tim Warren ([email protected]), MTA organizer boss, a list of the streets you want to cover or let Joel know.

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Our labor movement understands that solidarity is how we win. We’ve been inspired by all the Zoom calls popping up to support Vice President Harris, and are proud to co-sponsor AFL-CIO in hosting a Labor for Harris Organizing Call tonight.

As a proud member of the largest labor union in this country, I invite you to join me and our union brothers and sisters for this important moment. We'll discuss what’s at stake in this election and learn more about how to get involved.

Join the call by registering:

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We know we can count on Kamala to keep working for our students and our families. Her track record speaks for itself:
Public School Funding: Protecting critical funds for public schools and opposing private school vouchers.
Educator Support: Raising salaries, eliminating the pay gap, and supporting recruitment and retention programs.
School Meals: Expanding access to healthy, free school meals for all students.
Community Safety: Passing significant gun violence prevention legislation to keep our schools and communities safe.
Loan Forgiveness: Reforming the Public Service Loan Forgiveness plan, granting $68 billion in relief to nearly 942,000 educators and public service workers.
When we come together, we win. Let’s show our solidarity and make a difference.
In unity,

Becky Pringle
President
National Education Association

Campaign to Promote, Protect, and Strengthen Public Education
Join the movement to save our schools.

Everyone deserves an opportunity to shoot for the moon. Everyone should be able to use public education as a gateway to opportunity. But public education is struggling. Too often, opportunity is determined by ZIP codes, and our democracy is at risk.

Imagine if our legacy to the next generation included an equitable education system.

The National Education Association is working to promote, protect, and strengthen public education. Our moonshots are ambitious, and require the sum of us, not just some of us, to stand up for schools in every district, join together with partners and allies, and create a system that enables all public school supporters to save public education today and for the future.

We invite you to join us and our partners in the first two opportunities to mobilize for public education.

Learn more and apply for grants here: https://www.nea.org/moonshots

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NEA Moonshots The National Education Association is working to promote, protect, and strengthen public education. Our moonshots are ambitious, and require the sum of us, n...

National Education Association Recommends Vice President Kamala Harris for President

Nation’s students and educators need tireless advocate in the Oval Office

WASHINGTON- Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, announced today that the largest labor union in the country is recommending Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The union represents educators living in every congressional district—teachers, bus drivers, custodians, librarians, college professors, and school support staff who faithfully cast their vote in election after election.

“In 2024, the future of our students, our public schools, and our democracy are on the ballot. With so much at stake, the 3-million-member strong National Education Association—the largest labor union in America—is proudly and enthusiastically announcing its support of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The choice for the nation is clear: we can elect a president who will make sure our students can live into their full brilliance by prioritizing our public schools or a president who will demonize them and corporatize our schools, minimizing who has access and opportunities.

This was an easy decision. Vice President Harris’ track record speaks volumes, she shares educators’ priorities: supporting our students no matter their race, where they live or how much money their parents make. She has worked to strengthen public education, build up the middle class, and resource our communities. Not only did Vice President Harris help shape the American Rescue Plan, the single largest investment in education, she cast the tie-breaking vote to advance it. And together, the Biden-Harris Administration changed lives – including educators lives – by wiping away more than $168 billion in student debt, after years of public service to Americas students and our communities.

Vice President Harris has delivered time and again for students and educators, and educators know we can count on her continued partnership in expanding access to free school meals for students, investing in student mental health, working to ensure no educator has to carry the weight of crushing student debt and, doing everything possible to keep our communities and schools safe.

Our students’ futures will be shaped by the decisions made in the Oval Office over the next four years. The time is now to unite behind Kamala Harris, a champion for students, public education and working families, rather than a convicted felon who wants to tear down our nation and destroy our democracy so only the wealthy can benefit. Now is the time to reclaim public education as a common good and to elect a leader ready to work hand in hand with educators to promote, protect and strengthen our public schools.”

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Yes on 2 Dialer · Massachusetts Teachers Association Join Educators, parents, students, and community members for the YES on 2 campaign to replace the MCAS as a high school graduation requirement. Phone banks will occure every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.. We need your help to get the word out to vote yes on question 2 in November.

✅ ✅ Introducing: Yes on 2!
On Nov. 5, vote YES on Question 2 to replace the MCAS graduation requirement and prioritize educating the whole student – by ensuring that students have met the Commonwealth’s high standards based on coursework and educator assessments.

Yes on 2 is a vote for .

Shout out to our clerks are still holding it down for those of us who able to put school on the back burner and our 11 colleagues!

Should the MCAS graduation requirement be replaced? We say YES and we urge you to encourage all of your friends, family and neighbors to vote YES on this question when it goes before voters in November. We got official word today from the Secretary of State’s office that the final round of signatures has been approved and the petition is heading to the ballot.

Getting on the ballot is no small task! This is the result of the hard work of MTA educators, parents and allies who have collected the signatures of more than 170,000 Massachusetts voters in order to get this question before voters on November 5.

☀️ Learn, connect and reflect at Summer Conference, free to MTA members! Join us from July 28-31 at UMass Amherst. Register by July 11 to attend at no cost. Sign up: massteacher.org/summer.

Happy 4th of July!

Last day for students!

Is Cambridge next? Our children deserve to have the best learning conditions to support their learning. How can a classroom teacher provide IEP support/inclusion and provide classroom instruction for twenty students without a co teacher?

What the understand Robert’s Rules? This workshop is for you!

Please register!

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As the school year ends, consider this…

The end of school can be a time of mixed emotions – happiness, relief, sadness, anxiety – all of which are normal!

As the school year winds down, take some time to reflect & celebrate everything you've accomplished this year.

Calling ALL Unit C members! You input is necessary at this critical stage in negotiations. Meeting details below and via email.

Support our ESPs!

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In case you missed it: A recording of the Virtual Forum on 5-29-24.MCAS and Equity

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Unit E(Paraprofessionals)has reached a Tentative Agreement with the Cambridge School Committee on a 2 year contract.

Let's celebrate the culmination of our hard work this school year by coming together in unity. Your presence is essential to making a difference with negotiations. Be in the room, be counted, and contribute to the positive change we aspire to achieve together! School committee room at CRLS!

Negotiations on Monday June 10. 12:30 to 2 and 4 to 6. Stay tuned.

Experience the power of community and celebrate the triumph of freedom at EMAC's Juneteenth Celebration on June 19th!

At tonight’s school committee meeting supporting our ESPs!

Pay a living wage a starting wage of 26000 is below the poverty line!

Rally at CRLS! Cambridge Clerks, Paraprofessionals and Substitutes deserve a living wage!

June is Pride Month!

Teachers and support staff want to provide every student with an accurate and quality education, while some politicians want to exclude certain kids, denying their schools funding and writing people who look like them out of our history books. This , join us in the movement to make schools places where children can learn and thrive without fear, intimidation, or disrespect. https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/support-lgbtq-students-and-educators?utm_campaign=lgbtq&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1717189719

Join your fellow MTA members in Boston Pride Parade on June 8th. Sign up below.

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Take action in support of MTA priorities in the state Senate budget Email your state senator right away and urge them to support the MTA's priority amendments that would strengthen the Senate budget proposal.