Sisters and Brothers, Last night, the Haverhill School Committee – without public comment – reversed everything it decided only 6 days ago and, despite increasing infection rates in our community, voted to bring all k-5 students and educators back to full hybrid during what will inevitably be a post-New Year’s Eve infectious period of this […]

Sisters and Brothers, Once again, Haverhill has reached a new high percent positivity rate of 9.65% with an average daily incidence of 87.2 over the past two weeks (up from 7.21% and 58.3, respectively). Every educator on the Joint Stakeholder Coronavirus Response Team spoke passionately on behalf of Cohort C educators, especially those who are […]

ESP Bargaining – Restart Update #4 Tonight’s negotiation was brief. After keeping us waiting for just under an hour to start, the School Committee apologized asked for more time to finalize their new salary scale proposal. Currently, several district personnel are quarantined and the SC did not feel comfortable presenting the proposal until it was reviewed […]

2020 ESP of the Year Nominations Each year, the HEA Executive Committee selects one Education Support Professional nominated by the members to be it’s ESP of the Year. The ESP is then submitted to the MTA as Haverhill’s nominee for the statewide honor. To nominate your 2020 ESP of the Year, please complete this form. […]

Sisters and Brothers, First, I hope that each of you had a restful Thanksgiving weekend with your families. Second, I apologize for the time and length of this email, but there’s much I need to share. From November 8th to the 21st the average daily incidence rate was 44 per 100,000 residents and the percent […]

HEA Members Needed for Committees! Our rank-and-file union depends on members being as active and engaged in the day-to-day business of building the union as they are when marching up Main Street or storming the School Committee at City Hall. No matter how much experience you have as an educator or a union member, all […]

Sisters and Brothers, Our weekly Joint Stakeholder Coronavirus Response Team just concluded. An additional 2 students have tested positive from 11/12 to 11/18 and were in school during their infectious period. 12 other new positive cases were not in school during their infectious period. 3 additional staff members tested positive and had been in school […]

ESP Bargaining Restart Update #3 It was a happy accident that tonight’s ESP contract bargaining meeting took place on National Educational Support Professionals Day! All of us on the Executive Committee want to thank our dedicated ESPs for all you do to make public education possible. Tonight was yet another respectful, positive, and productive session […]

Rank-and-File Members Needed for HEA Committees While this year has brought no shortage of crises for the HEA to address, there’s more to active unionism than Crisis/Contract Action Teams and contract negotiations. A successful and powerful democratic organization depends on members being as active and engaged in the day-to-day business of building the union as […]

Sisters and Brothers, Earlier tonight the Haverhill Education Association came together to discuss DESE’s changing guidance and complete failure to safely and effectively lead the state’s public schools through this pandemic. In response, the membership decidedly almost unanimously to join with other locals throughout the Commonwealth in declaring “no confidence” in Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and […]