Continue to check here and at http://ieanea.org for updates, information and calls to action.

The following document contains several helpful tools and resources for members that have been RIF’d.  Information is included on topics such as:

Posting of Vacancies and other Job Posting
Who to Contact
Final Payment
Unemployment Insurance
TRS Service Credit
Legislation and Political Action

This resource was provided to those who attended the meetings on May 4 and 6 and is now also [...]

We’ve posted links to several stories, photos and videos from the April 21 SOS (Save our State/Save our Schools) Rally on the UFEA Facebook Page. Several of the stories feature images and quotes of UFEA and BEA members. 
If you’re on Facebook and haven’t yet “liked” the UFEA Page, you should!  You can also follow UFEA [...]

We will be taking over 30 Unit 5 employees and friends to the Lobby Day in Springfield tomorrow.  We’ll be joining about 20 others from Region 14 and thousands of others from across the State.
We think we will have a big crowd, and we hope to be able to talk with our local legislators when we [...]

After watching the video, go to www.ieanea.org to read more.

 
Next Friday (March 19) some of us will be in Chicago as delegates to the annual IEA Representative Assembly.  The candidates for Governor (Pat Quinn and Bill Brady) will be at our meeting that day to answer our questions about what they intend to do to fund education in Illinois.
 
The delegates to the Assembly are planning to wear pink [...]

This morning the principals will be contacting all first year teachers to let them know they will be RIFed, and also to give them a brochure that includes information about the RIF and the timeline for applying and interviewing, etc.  In addition to first year teachers, all non-tenured part time teachers will also be released.
This [...]

The Unit Five Education Association annually awards three scholarships to individuals purusing a career in education.  Applications for each $1000 scholarship are due by March 19, 2010 at 3 pm.  Applications should be completed and returned to:
Pat Fitzgerald
NCHS
3900 E. Raab Road
Normal, IL 61761
One Rosenbaum Scholarship is awarded to a senior at Normal Community High school, [...]

The newly ratified contract between UFEA and Unit 5 is now available online.  Printed copies will be available soon.
To view the contents of the contract, click on the “Contract” link found on each page.  The Contract page includes links to the entire contract as a PDF that can be downloaded and printed, and also incluces [...]

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.