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It's obvious that teachers are looking for options to the national labor unions for their professional protection and support. Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency, reports that in states without compulsory union fees, NEA affiliates lost more than 47,000 active members in 2014 while NEA affiliates in agency fee states gained about 5,300 active members. Let's look at the numbers in the Northwest. Continue Reading...Judith Camann is a veteran National Board Certificated Exceptional Needs Teacher. She holds five Washington State teaching certifications in general education, special education and reading as well as two Education Staff Associate certifications. She has also been deemed highly qualified in five different curriculum areas. Judy is an NWPE member and union member who opposed the strike by Seattle teachers. She wrote this statement urging her colleagues not to strike, an action union members approved. The weeklong strike began September 9. Continue Reading...Thousands of Washington and Oregon educators who don’t want union representation and don’t want to pay union dues are forced to do so because of state laws made possible by the Supreme Court’s 1977 Abood decision. The Supreme Court signaled this week that it may be prepared to strike down this anti-teacher choice practice once and for all. Continue Reading...
NWPE's Cindy Omlin on Freedom Daily Regarding Union Dues Bill
posted by: Cindy Omlin | January 08, 2015, 11:25 PM NWPE Executive Director Cindy Omlin was interviewed on Freedom Daily, a radio show hosted by Freedom Foundation, a public policy organization focused on limited, accountable government, about a bill in the Washington legislature that would allow educators to vote compulsory union dues out of their union negotiated contracts. Continue Reading...
Mansfield Teachers' Independent Action Garners Attention
posted by: Cindy Omlin | January 06, 2015, 09:56 PM The action of the teachers in Mansfield, WA, to establish a "local only" teacher association for bargaining has attracted the attention of public policy think tanks and the media. Continue Reading...We are proud to announce that the following teachers have been awarded Fall 2014 NWPE Grant/Scholarship awards. Please click the links to learn more about the teachers and their awards. Continue Reading...
Congratulations Matthew Wysock, NWPE Grant Winner
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 12, 2014, 04:07 AM Congratulations to Mr. Matthew Wysock, a LaCrosse High School science teacher in LaCrosse, WA. Mr. Wysock was recently awarded a $420 Classroom Grant from Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE), the state’s only non-union professional teacher association, to purchase a radio transmitter, tracking program and programming cables to help students track the school’s high altitude weather balloon’s altitude, velocity and position used in the science program’s near-space engineering project. Continue Reading...
Mansfield Educators Begin New Era of Local Leadership
posted by: Cindy Omlin | November 07, 2014, 12:36 AM The certified teaching staff in Mansfield, WA, has taken the bold step to declare independence from the Washington Education Association (WEA) by replacing the Mansfield Teacher Association (MTA), a local affiliate of the WEA, with a new local teacher organization that has no ties to the WEA. Continue Reading...Jeff Wehr, NWPE member and award winning science teacher at Odessa High School in Washington state, recently reported on some remarkable research achievements by students in the school's Advanced STEM Research (ASR) Laboratory. Described in a feature article by ESD 101 as “an inquiry based study program that allows students to conduct independent study in any scientific discipline,” ASR is a concept which Wehr brought to Washington from his former teaching position in Montana. Continue Reading...
Waterville Student and Staff Leadership Thrives When Cultivated
posted by: Cindy Omlin | May 24, 2014, 07:50 PM The teachers and students of the tiny farming community of Waterville, WA (its mascot, the Shocker, is a shock of wheat), are truly focused on educating the whole person—not just focusing on academics in order to raise test scores. As a result, they could very well be raising scores higher than a pure academic focus alone could accomplish. Continue Reading...
NWPE Member Jeff Wehr's Students Win Prestigious STEM Awards
posted by: Cindy Omlin | March 28, 2014, 11:52 PM Congratulations to NWPE member Jeffrey Wehr and his Advanced STEM Research Laboratory students at Odessa High School, Odessa, WA! They continue to win prestigious awards for their exciting and promising research! Continue Reading...
NWPE member Justin Grillo is quite the leader! Justin was instrumental in bringing the "The Leader In Me" program, based on Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to his small rural school district in Waterville, WA. Continue Reading...Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE), the state’s premier non-union, professional educator association, is pleased to announce the election of its new board of directors and officers. Continue Reading... |
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