Flagstaff Education Association - FEA

An attack on unions is an attack on working people, full stop.

Republican amendment would strip me of my union rights | Opinion Arizona Republican lawmakers want to strip teachers of the right to join a union, weakening their ability to advocate for their classrooms.

Thx to the state's continued ILLEGAL underfunding of schools, FUSD will be seeking voter support on two budget overrides, one to maintain and one to supplement.

FUSD calls for elections on two budget overrides The Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) has called for two types of budget overrides to be added to the November ballot.

FEA Negotiations team celebrating after all employee groups voted to close half the teacher pay gap!

Ouch! And that makes FUSD teacher pay being $5k below state averages that much more unacceptable!

Arizona ranks 49th nationwide in per-student spending, 39th for average starting teacher salaries A new report from the National Education Association shows Arizona has fallen to 49th in the nation for per-student spending. It also found that while educator pay has increased in recent years, it hasn’t kept pace with inflation over the past decade, leaving many educators worse off.

The Flagstaff Education Association is proud to endorse Jennifer Richards and Aaron Cirzan for the FUSD Governing Board;
committed to students, educators, and strong public schools.

Two of our sites showing solidarity on collaboration day as we push to with state average educator pay!

FUSD educators are demanding that our district close 50% of the ($5,149!!) gap between our pay and the AZ teacher average! And that has to include the ~2.6% average AZ teacher raise as well, or we'll just be treading water. Pls share if you support a minimum standard of being on par with AZ's (low!) average pay!

"The lack of democratic organization not only gave Chavez immunity in his abuse of girls and women, but is also what caused the downfall of the UFW."

A Lack of Democracy in the United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote from...

Don't listen to the fabulists--20% of ESA purchases are fraudulent, unallowable, bogus!

ADE official: 12News was accurate in reporting that 20 percent of parents had misspent $10 million in the education voucher program 12News found at least two dozen transactions that should have been banned under Department of Education ESA rules.

“They found the money for the things they said they couldn’t... They agreed to the language they said they couldn’t.”

Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had prev...