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 […]

Sisters and Brothers, First and foremost, I apologize for not sending you my weekly update from the Joint Stakeholder Coronavirus Response Team last night. We met just before a powerful School Committee meeting which featured a number of educators advocating passionately for a Living Wage. It was empowering to watch member after member stand up […]

Support the hard-working Education Support Professionals schools rely on every day! The Haverhill Contract Action Team is calling ALL TEACHERS to send email testimonials to the School Committee about ESPs we work with on a daily basis who make our jobs easier. Send 1 email, each day to schoolcommittee@haverhill-ps.org about a different ESP you work with from now […]

Sisters and Brothers, Earlier tonight I presented the Joint Stakeholder Coronavirus Task Force, which includes HEA members, parents, administrators, and medical professionals, with a letter written by our union siblings at the Consentino Middle School. This letter comes after a COVID-19 outbreak closed their building and sent all educators and students to remote learning until […]

Sisters and Brothers, As you’ve heard by now, the Consentino School is closed to students and instructional staff are working remotely until November 13th after a 6th building educator tested positive for the coronavirus today. While these were not the first cases in our district, they do represent the first known instances of trasmission inside […]