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July 3, 2009
The AEA is a membership-driven organization that depends on the dues you and other members provide. With your support, the AEA works for improved salaries, benefits and working conditions for all education professionals. In addition, the AEA sponsors several free professional development and leadership training opportunities each year.
A few of the gains AEA has made for education employees include:
- Designated planning time for teachers
- Duty-free lunch periods for teachers
- Minimum salary schedule
- Grievance procedure required by law
- Personnel policy committees and collective bargaining
- Teacher fair dismissal act with strict compliance
- Retirement benefits
- Sick leave, including transfer of sick leave from district to district and pregnancy leave recognized as sick leave
- Professional staff development credit and guaranteed leave for AEA Convention workshops
- Educational trust fund for salaries
- Health insurance for school employees
Who Can Join?
- Teachers
- Education Support Professionals: bus drivers, teacher aides, maintenance staff, food service personnel, secretaries and clerks
- Retired professional educators
- Students
Retired members may join AEA/NEA-Retired. Members can help further the advancement of public education in Arkansas and the United States.
Students may join the student divisions of both the AEA and the NEA, known as the S-AEA and the S-NEA. As members, students can provide a united voice in matters that affect their chosen profession and influence the conditions under which prospective educators are prepared.
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