NIEARC Members (L-R): Jan Studer, Bette Price, Mary Lee Ruch, Tama Twenty-two North Idaho IEA members with an eye on retirement learned the ins-and-outs of their benefits at an April 9 retirement workshop sponsored by the North Idaho Education Association Retired Chapter (NIEARC). Geared to those within five years of retirement, the half-day event…
A silent auction benefitting the IEA Children’s Fund will be held both days of next week’s IEA Delegate Assembly in Boise. DA is the most important fundraiser of the year for the Children’s Fund, which provided 373 need-based grants worth $54,689 to Idaho students and their families last year and has provided hundreds of thousands of…
Hundreds of IEA members will gather for IEA’s 2022 Annual Meeting and Delegate Assembly (DA) in Boise on Thursday and Friday. It will be the first in-person DA since April 2019 in Coeur d’Alene. This annual business and policy-setting meeting is essential to the IEA’s work to support and advocate for all of Idaho’s educators…
The Idaho Education Association, this week, called upon the Idaho State Board of Education to issue a temporary rule ordering state funding for public schools to be based upon school enrollment, rather than the less predictable measure of average daily attendance. A current temporary rule, instituted by the SBOE at the height of the COVID-19…
Collective bargaining teams for IEA locals across the state have begun negotiations for 2022-23 educator contracts in earnest. These teams of IEA members, trained in collective bargaining best practices by IEA organizers, negotiate on behalf of all educators in their school district — not just members of their IEA local. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON…
Members engaged on the IEA’s Political Action Committee for Education or PACE are hard at work interviewing candidates for local and statewide offices in the coming May 17 primary election. CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE TO PACE On May 1, the PACE’s endorsements of pro-public education candidates to the Idaho Legislature and statewide offices, like governor…