在VEA,所有的位置都安排好了 通过和通过成员. VEA的130多个地方工会, 每个国家都有自己的官员, 是VEA管区的一部分吗. 每个地区有权选举成员作为VEA董事会的代表. VEA的政策和立场由成员讨论, 军官, 以及地区和州的董事会, 然后由每年一次的州代表大会批准, 哪个是协会最重要的机构.
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VEA认为:
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第一次小班制的大规模实验已经过去了20年. 这项研究, 以及随后的许多人, confirmed substantial academic gains for K–3 学生 in smaller classes compared to 学生 in larger classes. 甚至当助教出现在较大的班级时, 这些学生的表现不如小班的学生好. 男孩和女孩的结果是一样的, 但对于黑人学生来说, 结果更加引人注目. Black 学生 in the smaller classes outperformed Black 学生 in larger classes at a rate two to three times higher than the white 学生 did over their white counterparts. 到目前为止, 只有一项值得注意的研究试图驳斥凯发现金网小班制的研究, 但就连这一努力也因方法不当而受到批评, 而且,它在影响这场辩论方面并没有取得多大进展. 总的来说,最大的阻碍减少班级规模的问题是对成本的担忧.
在弗吉尼亚州,质量标准(SOQs)制定了 division-wide 许多核心内容类的类大小,但大多数类没有被任何状态要求覆盖. Local school divisions and building-level leadership have tremendous flexibility to set individual class sizes based on their student population and teacher allocation so long as they remain under the state-mandated levels 作为一个分工和 SOQ-mandated类.
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教育储蓄账户(ESA)是公立私立学校教育的最新趋势. These programs pay parents the money the state would otherwise have spent to educate their children in exchange for an agreement to forego their right to a public education. 在维吉尼亚州, 因为公共资金不能用于资助宗教学校, 国家资金被存入“储蓄账户”,父母可以从中支取. 家长们可以将这些国家基金用于各种各样的教育目的, 包括宗教学校的学费, 私立学校. 这使得欧空局在弗吉尼亚州是符合宪法的论点显得软弱无力.
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The Tompkins County Worker’s Center defines a living wage as “the minimum wage a single adult working full-time requires to meet his or her basic living expenses, 包括租, 食物, 运输, 卫生保健, 其他必需品, 税, 还有适度的娱乐和储蓄津贴.”
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The foundation of a strong retirement plan for public school educators is a traditional “defined-benefit” (DB) pension plan that guarantees adequate monthly payments after retirement. DB计划提供了一个固定的, 向参加者提供终身年金, with the benefits based on a formula that takes into account years of service and average final salary over a specified number of years. 与此形成鲜明对比的是, “固定”的退休计划, 比如401(k), 提供一项福利,该福利来自于企业累积的供款和收入 个人参与者的帐户; typically, both employer and employee contributions are mandatory. 固定缴款计划对员工来说风险更大, because the timing of the retirement and investment returns can significantly diminish funds available for a secure retirement.
美国的立法者.S. have undermined the retirement security offered by traditional public pension plans in a number of ways: by underfunding the plans, 通过改变减少退休人员收入保障的计划, 通过削减生活成本的增长, 或者用不太安全的固定缴款计划取代全部养老金.
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The traditional DB plan offered to Virginia school employees prior to 2010 was amended with the creation of three different Plans: Plan 1, 影响7月1日后录用的员工, 2010; Plan 2, 影响1月后聘用的员工. 1, 2013; and a “hybrid” plan, 包含DB计划和DC计划的元素, 为那些在简之后雇佣的人设立的, 1, 2014. 与之前的DB退休计划相比,这三个计划的福利都减少了.
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在离析的决议, the Association’s position is clear in insisting on safe school and work environments for both student and public education employees and for discipline policies that are developed, 以非歧视性的方式实施和应用.
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根据公共诚信中心2015年对美国能源部数据的分析, 维吉尼亚州是将有纪律问题的学生移交给警察的州中最多的. 每1000名儿童中有16人转诊,这一比率居全国之首, and 学生 of color and 学生 with disabilities were referred to police at a disproportionately higher rate than the overall student population. The dilemma is twofold: 1) examining the high rate of referrals of 学生 of color and 学生 with disabilities while, 2)确保安全的学习环境和学生的学校安全, 老师, 以及教育支持专业人士.
The 2017 General Assembly saw the introduction of several bills opposed by the VEA Legislative Committee due to concerns about securing safe school environments for 学生 and employees and the lack of autonomy, 自由裁量权, 如果法案通过,当地学校系统可能会保留控制权.
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