Happy Holidays
The Nevada State Education Association wishes you and your family a happy and safe holiday season! In observance of the Christmas and New Year's Holidays, the NSEA Las Vegas, Elko, and Reno offices will be closed from Dec. 24 - Jan. 2. We will reopen Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. If you need to contact us please call 800-248-6732 and leave a message on our general mailbox. We will get back to you as soon as we return.
Use Your Membership Discount Card to Shop for the Holidays
Your NSEA Membership/Discount card should have arrived to you by now. This card provides members with discounts on most of your favorite retailers, leisure services, dining, and travel. It also serves as your identification card for your membership in your local affiliate, NSEA, and the NEA.
Activate your card by clicking on Members Only on the top right side of the screen, and start saving immediately. If you have not received your card, please call 800-248-6732. Happy Savings!
NEA Hopeful About Next Education Secretary—Arne Duncan
Duncan has called for doubling NCLB funding and adding more flexibility into the law
The National Education Association is hopeful about President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for Education Secretary, Arne Duncan. Duncan has called for doubling funding for No Child Left Behind, and tempering the law’s teach-to-the-test rigidity with more flexibility.
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Get Your Master’s of Education Online through Touro University Nevada
Touro University Nevada offers a groundbreaking online program for Nevada educators seeking to obtain their Master’s of Education in Curriculum & Instruction (with an emphasis on Differentiated Instruction). Dynamic, video-based courses are accessible online, on-demand through the KDS Classroom, a CODiE-Award Winning eLearning Platform (powered by Knowledge Delivery Systems).
NSEA Reacts to Governor’s Announcement of Ruling Out Raises and Step Increases
The budget cuts the Governor is proposing for education takes things to an all-time low! Never in recent history have we had to consider these types of cuts to education—state leaders have never let it get this far.
This shows the Governor’s lack of commitment to education. Voters overwhelmingly showed support to increasing K-12 public education funding in the last election and clearly this Governor is not in touch with what the people want.
It is irresponsible to propose to ignore legal contracts which have been honored for decades—this is exactly what not funding step increases would do. NSEA looks forward to working with the legislature to find an acceptable, responsible solution to this budget crisis.
Please join us by contacting your legislators. Click here to contact your legislators and urge them to remain committed to Nevada’s students and educators! For a sample message, click here.
IRS Regulations to Affect Employee Pensions Put on Hold
Earlier last year the IRS issued final regulations that would change the way public employee pensions were to be taxed here in Nevada. Taking away the decision from the state, the IRS was going to demand that Nevada require a certain age requirement for retirement. Instead of going with a “years of service” determination which is in current law, the IRS was regulating that no matter how many years a public employee put in, they would be heavily penalized for choosing to retire before the age of 62. This disturbed the NEA and the NSEA greatly as we looked to reach out and change this regulation before it began to take effect in 2009.
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Have You Registered for Your Free Insurance Coverage?
All eligible members can take advantage of the valuable, automatic term life insurance coverage provided by NEA-Dues-Tab®. All you have to do is register your beneficiary and you're covered so don't wait, do it now! For more details or to enroll online click here.
PEBP Increases Rates for 2009
On March 13, 2008 the Public Employee’s Benefits Program Board voted to increase the 2009 rates for all active and retired non-state employees.
Depending on your years of service and number of dependants, your rate may have increased as much as $100 a month.
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More About Retirement Benefits
For more information on the Public Employees’ Benefits Program and on the new laws, please visit http://pebp.state.nv.us/.
To calculate your retirement benefit, please visit http://www.nvpers.org/public/gbeEstimator/index.jsp.
