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Stop the effort to divert money from public schools to private schools, home schoolers and others.  We need to protect public education. SB 193 is a voucher bill under the guise of “Education Freedom Savings Accounts”.  A hearing before the House Education Committee has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 4^th at 10:00am at the Legislative Office Building, Room 207, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH. 

Please Support Public Education

Defeat SB 193

Stop School Vouchers

Stop the effort to divert money from public schools to private schools, home schoolers and others.  We need to protect public education. SB 193 is a voucher bill under the guise of “Education Freedom Savings Accounts”.  

Each school district receives $3,560 +/- for each student enrolled in K-12. This bill would divert 90% of that amount to an account for a child who attends any private school, charter school or for home-schooling expenses. Another 5% in administrative expenses can be diverted to the administration of the “scholarship account”.

This bill will cause a significant impact on local property taxpayers as money is diverted away from funding our public schools and into a system with little or no accountability.

A hearing before the House Education Committee has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 4^th at 10:00am at the Legislative Office Building, Room 207, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH.

Please attend the hearing and show your opposition. If you do not wish to testify, you can sign a card showing your opposition.

If you are unable to attend, you can email the full House Education Committee directly at HouseEducationCommittee@leg.state.nh.us.

For more resources on this issue, please visit our web site at:

http://nh.aft.org/2017-nh-state-house-news#

For breaking news, follow us on Facebook at AFT New Hampshire or Twitter  @AFTNewHampshire.

BCFPE 
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Thursday, May 4, 2017
6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
BCFPE OFFICE

305 W. Chesapeake Avenue
Suite L 30
Towson, MD. 21204

BCFPE UNION UPDATE

• New FY2017 thru FY2019 MOU
• Healthcare UPDATE
• General State of the Union UPDATE
• Union Member Legal Benefits UPDATE
• BCFPE ELECTION PROCESS

We have agreed to a contract! Below you will find a summary of the meeting on 3/29/17. You will also find a link to the Memorandum of Agreement(MOA) that was signed with the hospital. The day to vote, Ratification Day, will be Wednesday, April 5th 2017 6am to 8:30pm at the Union Office, Danbury Executive Tower, 30 Main Street, Ste 202,Danbury, CT 06810. Please take the time to review and then come and vote on the 5th.

Please remember that eligible employees who retire effective July 1, 2017 or August 1, 2017 and whose irrevocable Separation from Service forms are submitted to the District's Human Resources Office (Fisher Building, 10th Floor) no later than May 1, 2017, will be paid $45.00 for each unused sick day in their sick bank up to one hundred (100) days, and $65.00 for each unused sick day in their sick bank for day one hundred and one (101) to two hundred (200) for a maximum payout of $11,000. Payout of sick time upon retirement does not include a payout from the catastrophe bank.

For questions concerning retirement, contact retirement counselor Patrick Falcusan at 313-875-6783, 313-683-6822 or pfalcusan@dft231.com

The Maryland Senate passed SB540, creating a study of alternatives to the current defined benefit pension system.  Any alternative that drains resources from the pension system will be harmful for the state’s economy, taxpayers and state employees.  Your delegates need to hear from you that these priorities just don’t add up.  

CEA Logo created by Janelle Field-Rohrer

June 10, 2017 Cap'n Billy's Crab House
11495 Pope's Creek Rd, Newburg, MD (Area III Crab Feast)
September 21, 2017 (right before Convention) - TBD
December 6, 2017 (Election of Sgt-At-Arms) - TBD

Become an #OHPublicSchoolProud follower on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OHPublicSchool.

Below you will find a summary of what occured at negotiations yesterday 3/28/17. Please take the time to review the proposals as well as the response of Ben, our lawyer. Today is the last Negotiation day! Come support your Contract. We need to show our strength! Remember just click on the link ending in .pdf.

http://unit47.ct.aft.org/files/summary3-28.pdf