[metacognative]

No Indiana? What can I do then?

[Visioneer]

Contact CEAFU -- Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500 Springfield, VA 22160 800-336-3600, Fax: 703-321-7342

Someone there may be able to assit you with contacts or know of independent teacher organizations within Indiana.

Independent teacher associations are most common in "Right-to-Work" states. In many non-Right-to-Work states, teachers are literally forced to join one of the teacher unions as a pre-condition to employment. Still, even in those states, there are sometimes "pockets" of teachers in local districts or regions who form alternative groups. I suspect there may be something somewhere in Indiana you could latch on to. Otherwise, a core of dedicated teachers can always establish a new organization anytime they wish.

[EdReform]

Teachers who want to belong to a Professional Education Association should consider joining the Association of American Educators. You could join the AAE, then spread the word among your fellow Hoosier educators and start your own state chapter.

Let your colleagues know that they are entitled to receive a refund on the part of their NEA dues that is being used for political activity. Many teachers believe that they must join the NEA to get liability insurance -- The AAE offers excellent Liability Insurance.

Now is the time to help bust the NEA

[EdReform]

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