IMPORTANT!! JUNE 30

UPDATE: Tenure votes may come TODAY! Call senators NOW!

Reports are coming in that the state Senate may vote THIS AFTERNOON on the House package that dismantles teacher tenure and attacks the collective bargaining and due process rights of all school employees.

PLEASE ACT NOW! Call your state Senator and urge them to vote against House Bills 4625-4628. Ask them not to strip good teachers of their rights in order to get the very few bad apples out of classrooms. Tell them we need common-sense tenure reform – which MEA supports through Senate Bill 503.

Contact your Senator right away – before it is too late.
Read more about these bills and what else is happening in Lansing today.


Doug Pratt
Director of Public Affairs
Michigan Education Association


Because we anticipate that the Legislature will try to push through insurance caps and tenure bills tomorrow [June 30], they need to see hundreds of MEA members watching them and encouraging them to do the right thing. Please take time to travel to Lansing to hold your legislators accountable.

MEA will provide briefings at 8:30 a.m. in Room A of MEA HQ (East Lansing), 10:00 a.m. in Room 428 of the Capitol, and 1 p.m. in Room 428 of the Capitol.
Your presence will make a difference!

Thanks – Tom
Tom Ferris
Southern Zone Field Services Director
Director of Organizing
Michigan Education Association

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Update received from michiganvotes.org
House Bill 4625: Make it easier to fire ineffective teachers
Reported in the Senate on June 28, 2011, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=137751

House Bill 4626: Make it easier to fire ineffective teachers
Reported in the Senate on June 28, 2011, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=137752

House Bill 4627: Ban laying off more effective but less senior teachers first (“LIFO”)
Reported in the Senate on June 28, 2011, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=137753

House Bill 4628: Ban school unions bargaining over staffing decisions
Reported in the Senate on June 28, 2011, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=137754