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The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is requiring most of the schools it operates—here and overseas—to reopen and offer in-person instruction five days a week despite a resurgence of COVID-19 in many of those places. DoDEA educators are eager to return to their schools and see their students, but are concerned about safety—specifically, the availability of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for students and educators, the feasibility of social distancing, and adequate staffing levels. Urgent action is needed to prevent this threat to the health and safety of military dependents, as well as the threat to military readiness posed by this unnecessary exposure to the virus.
Email your senators and representative and ask them to require schools for military kids to implement remote instruction
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is engaging in illegal contract actions against its employees – thousands of whom are members of NEA and its Federal Education Association affiliate.
In its Stateside schools, DoDEA is forcing educators to work 24 additional, unpaid hours each academic quarter on “busy work” unrelated to their jobs, denying students the support they deserve and creating havoc for educators struggling to find last-minute child care and make other arrangements. DoDEA’s actions are part of its illegal implementation of an unsigned contract that the Federal Education Association – Stateside Region is contesting.
Overseas, DoDEA is trying to eliminate all grievance and due-process rights for workers, seeking to make them at-will employees subject to management’s whims. DoDEA also intends to extend the duty day without added compensation, curtail the ability of union representatives to serve their members, and make it even harder to fix pay problems. These are just a few of the harmful actions they’re proposing in contract negotiations for Overseas employees.
Congress is the closest thing DoDEA schools have to a school board. A group of Senators and Representatives have sent a bipartisan letter to DoDEA management opposing its illegal contract actions, but we must all speak out. Tell your elected representatives to rein in DoDEA’s harmful actions and protect the quality of Department of Defense schools, for the sake of the military dependents they serve and the educators who work in them.
A bill to close a loophole created by the 2017 GOP tax bill that denies some federal workers full reimbursement for moving expenses
A bill to close a loophole created by the 2017 GOP tax bill that denies some federal workers full reimbursement for moving expenses
A bill to waive the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program’s five consecutive years of service requirement for military spouses who relocate during the school year due to military orders.
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