Archives for May 2014

Montclair State University, the New Jersey Future Educators Association (NJFEA), and the New Jersey Association for Middle Level Educators (NJMLE) cordially invite middle school students in grades 6-8, who are interested in becoming  future teachers, to attend the NJFEA Middle School Conference: Thursday, May 22, 2014 | Clink the Link for more info:

NJFEA 2014 Middle School Flyer (1)

Steinhauer: Christie pension proposal is illegal and reckless

Will pursue legal action to block plan

NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer released the following statement in response to Gov. Christie’s press conference earlier today:

“This much should be abundantly clear to every New Jersey resident: Gov. Christie is much better at making pension promises than keeping them. As a candidate, he pledged to educators that ‘nothing about your pension is going to change when I am governor.’ He broke that promise in 2011 when he signed a law that reduced pension benefits even for current retirees. In signing that law, he made a new promise that the state would slowly return to responsible pension funding practices by phasing in its contributions at a rate of 1/7 per year. Now he says he intends to break that promise, too.

“Gov. Christie’s illegal, irresponsible and reckless proposal to further delay a return to sound pension funding practices will irreparably harm New Jersey and cannot be allowed. In addition to the damage this will do to the pension system and to the employees and retirees who rely on it, this will further damage New Jersey’s fiscal reputation, to the detriment of every taxpayer. NJEA will pursue every legal avenue to stop this reckless and illegal attack on working-class New Jersey resident.”

 

 

The arrangements for Jackie Clark, (Special Education Teacher-SOMS) daughter Lesley D. Clark. The Memorial Service is as follow:

Friday May 23, 2014
6:00 – 8:30 PM
6:00-7:00 – Meet and Greet
7:00 Memorial Service will begin

Place: New Hope Baptist Church
144 Norman Street
East Orange, NJ 07017

Arrangements for Meta Johnson: Saturday, May 17, 2014 at  11:30am | Woody Home for Service | 163 Oakwood Avenue, Orange, New Jersey 07050. This is a memorial service.

Wake: Monday, May 12th 2014 6-9pm  Quinn Hopping Funeral Home, 145 E. Mt Pleasant Ave, Livingston,
Funeral Mass on Tuesday, May 13th 2014 at 9am at St Johns Ukrainian Catholic Church, 60 North Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ

We want to extend our sympathy to the  family of Meta Johnson. Meta was a long-time member , who recently retired, of  the Clinton Elementary teaching staff as well as a SOMEA rep. May her family find peace during this difficult time.