Signature Gathering to Begin!
We need your help!
NSEA won the latest battle of the petition at the district court level with a ruling from Judge Shearing saying the re-filed petition did not violate the single subject rule. With this ruling, we are ready to move forward with signature gathering.
Close to 20,000 petitions were mailed to our members who are registered to vote. Everyone who receives the mailer should:
1. Sign the petition
2. Get other registered voters to sign
3. Have the petition notarized
4. Return the petition to NSEA
If you will sign the petition and ask your family and friends who are registered to vote to sign it also, we will make enormous strides in getting the required number of signatures to qualify this petition so it can go on the ballot in November. Our deadline to turn in signatures is May 20, so we are asking that you act on this immediately. For more information on how you can help click here.
Can we do this? Can we collect over 58,000 signatures by May 20? The answer rests partly with you.
If you need a copy of the petition, would like to sign up to volunteer, or need further information please visit the SOS website.
Transportation For Democratic State Delegates
The Clinton and Obama campaigns are organizing buses to transport delegates to the Democratic State Convention in Reno, NV. If you are interested in using this service please call the appropriate campaign.
- For the Barack Obama campaign call (702) 278-4626
- For the Hillary Clinton campaign call (702) 454-2008
Neither of these campaigns or the bus services are in coordination with the Nevada State Education Association. We recommend any questions regarding your travel be directed to the campaign.
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Background: Since 1972, National School Nurse Day has been set aside to recognize school nurses.
Purpose: National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding of the role of school nurses in the educational setting.
Date: National School Nurse Day is celebrated on the Wednesday within National Nurse Week and National Nurse Week is always May 6th through May 12th. Upcoming dates:
May 7, 2008
May 6, 2009
May 12, 2010
Mission Statement: The National Association of School Nurses improves the health and educational success of children and youth by developing and providing leadership to advance school nursing practice.
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PEBP Increases Rates for 2009
On March 13, 2008 the Public Employee’s Benefits Program Board voted to increase the 2009 rates for all active and retired non-state employees.
Depending on your years of service and number of dependants, your rate may have increased as much as $100 a month.
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Victory for WESP
The newest affiliate of NSEA, the Washoe Education Support Professionals (WESP), cleared a major legal hurdle last week with a ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court. The Court dismissed an appeal from the former parent group of WESP claiming that their disaffiliation vote was illegal. WESP members voted overwhelmingly in November of 2004 to leave the Nevada Classified School Employees Association and join NSEA. NCSEA filed suit in District Court where they lost.
We Need Your Help
Help us spread the word about our "Save Our Schools With Additional Funding for Salaries and Student Achievement" petition. We have created a flyer for you to print and post at schools and work sites in your district. You may also print a volunteer form to sign up to be an e-mail organizer, signature gatherer, or to be a part of our speakers' bureau.
For the latest news on the petition or to volunteer online log on to www.sos4nv.org.
Act Now To Reinstate RIF'S Funding
The President's proposed fiscal year 2009 budget eliminates the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program, which is the RIF Book Distribution Program. Unless Congress reinstates funding for this program, RIF would be unable to distribute 16 million books annually to the nation's youngest and most at-risk children.
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Adventure Learning Project
This Spring, National Geographic Explorer Will Steger and a team of young adventurers from Norway, Great Britain, Canada, and the U.S. will bring their High Arctic dogsled expedition to educators and learners through multimedia dispatches on www.globalwarming101.com. Follow Will and his teammates, all in their early twenties, as they retrace historical expedition routes on Ellesmere Island, encounter endangered wildlife, photograph disintegrating ice sheets that are collapsing into the ocean, mush across frozen sea ice, and visit an area on the frontlines of climate change.
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NEA Health Information Network Resources on Staph Infection Outbreaks
Parents and school staff alike are very concerned about the MRSA (Staph infection) now making national news. The good news is that the numbers are actually very small and, by taking a number of concrete steps, both school staff members and students can stay safe. Click here for more from the NEA HIN about the infection and efforts to combat it.
Nevada State Online Graduate Credit Program
Listen up members… Nevada educators, through Touro University, can now earn their graduate credit online in the comfort of their own home or office.
3-Graduate Credit Course
- NSEA Member - $700
- Non-NSEA Member - $800
- Length: Each course is 1 month in length
- Course Work: Participate in 8 online video based lectures, participate in weekly discussion board interaction, complete 2 projects, and finish the required reading
- Prerequisites: Bachelors Degree
Click here for more information.
More About Retirement Benefits
For more information on the Public Employees’ Benefits Program and on the new laws, please visit http://pebp.state.nv.us/.
To calculate your retirement benefit, please visit http://www.nvpers.org/public/gbeEstimator/index.jsp.
Social Security Offset - Action
We need your help
There are currently two bills in Washington - HR82 by Congressmen Berman and McKeon and S206 by Senators Feinstein and Colins - that would eradicate the unfair Social Security offset and windfall penalties levied on our teachers and education support professionals.
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School Safety
Working together to fight crime
NEA and its affiliates are working to address the root causes of violence among students. Toward that end,we are sharing effective strategies to:
- Reduce and eliminate bullying and harassment
- Expand access to counseling, anger management and peer mediation
- Provide ways for students to communicate with adults about rumors and threats
- Develop instruction that teaches values like respect and responsibility, and expand opportunities for kids to work with adult role models in after-school education and recreation programs.
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