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

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 [...]

Region 14 will be hosting it’s annual IPACE Dinner on Thursday, October 29.  All of our state-level elected officials have been invited to join us, and we’ll also be learning more about the current status of Illinois’ finances and the impact on school funding.
If you’re coming, you may want to read the following first!
From ieanea.org: [...]

For over three decades, the system for funding public schools in Illinois has made winners of some children and losers of others, all based on where those students live.  IEA has taken an official position in favor of changing that system and is committed to executing a plan that will accomplish that goal. 
A very important [...]

President Ken Swanson gives the most recent updates from Springfield regarding the Legislative Session.

President Swanson updates IEA members regarding the latest developments from this Legislative Session, including a call to action in support of HB 174.

President Swanson provides the most recent update from Springfield: