As we get closer to the final week of the North Dakota State Legislature's 2013 session, our weekly NDPEA Legislative Update salutes the life and career of Gov. William L. Guy, on news of his passing, and takes another look at the state employee compensation package compromise, and what it means for higher education workers. Read all about it.

AFT-Maryland/BTU President Marietta English addressed attendees at the educational town hall meeting, “Diversifying the Nation’s Teacher Workforce,” held on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., last week.

This past weekend, a compromise was struck in committee between legislative leaders at the state Capitol on a state worker compensation package for the coming biennium. North Dakota Public Employee Association Executive Director Stuart Savelkoul gives NDPEA's official position on this proposal.

In an unprecedented display of unity, leaders of the state’s most influential education organizations announced their opposition to re-enacting elements of Governor Bobby Jindal’s radical education agenda.

Added authorizations for current Special Education teachers have resulted in credential holders being required to take additional coursework in order to serve students.  SB 368 will allow Special Educators who need to obtain additional credential authorizations to receive credit for previous experience and coursework by granting credential programs the authority to make decisions about issues of equivalence, articulation and comparability when determining the coursework needs of teachers.  Enactment of SB 368 will ensure that Special Educators are evaluated individually and receive credit f

By unanimous vote, PFSP members voted to ratify the new three-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (Re-opener) reached in June 2014.

Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that AFT Healthcare will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the S

Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that MPEC will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the State of Maryland.

In this week's NDPEA Legislative Update, we are waiting for a compromise to be hammered out between legislative leaders in the Senate and House toward state employee compensation. After that decision is made, a whole lot of other ones will fall into place. And we're happy to see the higher education overhaul measure go down in flames. Read all about it.