Dear educator,

Registration for Education Minnesota's 2018 Summer Seminar is now open!

DAS continues its pursuit of a time tracking system called Kronos.  While the rest of Connecticut fights for minimal financial support, employees are being asked to increase thier contributions to support their benefits, many agencies are seeing their funding dwindle, and the State budget deficit is approach $350 million, DAS continues its quest to squander millions on a time-tracking system that no one wants.  Quite simply, this waste of money should be scrapped.  In these economic times, "wants" are secondary to "needs" and this is a want, not a need.  But since it continues to move forwa

The Health Insurance Open Enrollment period will run from May 7th through June 3rd of 2018.  The schedule of on-site open enrollment fairs has been released.  Remember, if you need to drop someone from your insurance, you must do it now.   The most common mistake is failure to remove a recent ex-spouse; they should be removed from coverage unless otherwise ordered by a court.  Children are covered until age 26 on medical and age 19 on dental (unless disabled).

Normally, the most recent payperiod would have included longevity payments for those who qualify.  However, in accordance with SEBAC2017, the April longevity payments are delayed until July.

The 2018 NYSUT RA was held in Buffalo April 27 - 28, 2018

NYSUT Representative Assembly 2018: News and Updates

A&R has a proud and longstanding tradition of awarding scholarships to qualifying children of A&R or children of former A&R members who are now members of the A&R Retiree Chapter.  This year's scholarship winners:

HARRY ZILBER AWARD – 1 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2500

Jenny Hawkins
Parent: Susanne Hawkins, DAS, Contract Specialist

POST SECONDARY SCHOLARSHIPS – 5 IN THE AMOUNT OF $1500

Signe Lee
Parent: Grace Jiang, DOI, Insurance Accredited Financial Examiner

Teachers nationwide are making headlines as they walk off the job to protest low wages and underfunding for their students. This powerful New York Times article shows the issue transcends politics.

Our members wore orange on April 20 and took a stand against gun violence in American schools.

Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals wore orange on April 20 and took a stand against gun violence in American schools.

On the 19th anniversary of the tragic Columbine shootings in Colorado, schools organized and mobilized as a community. Students at more than 2,000 educational institutions from California to Connecticut walked out again—and the men and women of Detroit Federation of Teachers, Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals and Detroit Association of Educational Office Employees stood with them in the call for commonsense gun reform.

Their members declared: #NoMore.

Thursday April 26th is a day of unity, it is also the day of the A&R Convention.  we are hoping all A&R employees will join together and wear blue on Thursday 4/26/18 as a show of solidarity.