Teachers Take Their Case to the Capitol – Connecticut Education Association

POSITIONS OPEN FOR NOMINATION

CEA may be eligible to elect up to 30 state delegates to the NEA RA in 2020. Here are descriptions of the open positions:

Category 1 At-Large/State Delegate: Fifteen Positions (Term: two years)

Category 1 At-Large/Ethnic Minority Concerns: Four Positions (Term: 2

years)

These categories must have Active classroom teachers (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) in local affiliates are eligible for these positions.

Aspiring Educators: one Position (Term: 1 Year)

Only Aspiring Educators with a SEA and NEA membership are eligible for this position.

Membership Units: nine positions from specific Membership Units (Term: one year)

Only active members (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who teach in a local CEA affiliate in one of the seventeen Membership Units may be nominated for these positions. The nine open units include E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P & Q.

Unit E:

Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman

Unit F:

Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge

Unit H:

ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott

Unit J:

Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield

Unit K:

Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill

Unit L:

Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor

Unit M:

Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks

Unit P:

East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford

Unit Q:

Clinton, East Haddam, East Hampton, Guilford, Haddam-Killingworth, Madison, Old Saybrook, Regional 4, Regional 13, Regional 18, Portland, Westbrook

Category 2 At-Large: One position (Term interim position open this year)

Nominees for the Category 2 At-Large position must be Active members (Membership Type AC-1) in supervisor/administrator positions or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who are no longer teaching—but only if they are not also NEA-Retired members. (NEA Life membership is a special category terminated in 1973.) Members with Active Life Memberships who are not retired from teaching are eligible for Category 2. NEA-Retired Members for Life (Membership Type RT-7) or annual Retired members (Membership Type RT-8) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CATEGORY 2