AFT Pennsylvania members provide their students with outstanding educational opportunities, and AFTPA helps by making sure you have the resources you need. AFTPA and Share My Lesson are bringing together vital educational resources:

• Lesson plans and materials
• Information on certification, professional development and evaluations
• Curriculum, standards, and testing.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT SHARE MY LESSON PA!

We hope you find these materials useful and will upload your own successful lesson plans and ideas to share with colleagues across the commonwealth.

On Friday, June 23, MPEC members stood up at the Rally for Respect against Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation's (SDAT) illegal sick leave policy. We will not stand idle while sick leave, and thus families, are attacked.

The AFT-Maryland, in conjunction with Federation members BTU, CUB, and a host of community and municipal partners, kicked off the Bringing Back Baltimore campaign at Margaret Brent Elementary School in Central Baltimore.

The 2017 legislative session is nearly completed, with one more scheduled meeting this coming Thursday, June 22, when the House and Senate will each vote on Committee of Conference reports.  These reports concern bills where the House and Senate differed over amendments, appointed a committee to try to iron out the disagreements, and the Committee came to a resolution.  The resulting bills can now only be voted up or down, no further amendments.  

June 19, 2017

Below you will find the link to the June/July/August Newsletter. Remember just click on the link ending in .pdf to view it.

http://unit47.ct.aft.org/sites/default/files/junejulyaugust17.pdf

We are calling out the State Department of Assessment and Taxation (SDAT) for failing to recognize the dignity and respect of the workers of the State of Maryland by trying to side-step the law.

Colleagues,

1)      Evaluations –If you disagree with your Annual Evaluation, it is important to write an appeal to NPS’s Evaluations Office and the Peer Oversight Committee.  Email your appeal to evaluations@nps.k12.nj.us.

On June 15^th the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals (WFNHP) and Citizen Action of Wisconsin launched a 60-day drive to create an organizing cooperative dedicated to fighting to make healthcare a fundamental human right.

WFNHP President Candice Owley on ‘Healthcare for All Co-op:”

"Our fight for quality, affordable healthcare didn’t begin with Obamacare and it won’t end with any version of Trumpcare. We’ve partnered with Citizen Action to create an alternative, a ‘Healthcare for All’ Co-op. This partnership brings together the voices of doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and patients to transform our healthcare system. We know from the work our members do inside our communities that individuals want their voices to be heard, not shut out. Lawmakers should work together with those most severely affected by healthcare reform, to help fix what’s broken but also maintain the benefits the ACA has afforded has them. Working behind closed doors in Washington is not the answer. Together, we can build a better healthcare system—one that is centered on providing high-quality care, not on turning profits. Every responsible legislator in the country who shares the vision of affordable healthcare should join our movement.”

2017 FOSCEP Board of Directors' Election Results

The following are your elected representitives for the FOSCEP Board of Directors, who will serve a two-year term from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2019: