This year NWOEA, NEA and OEA sent
six members from NWOEA to the NEA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
in Baltimore, Maryland (January 23-25). This year's confernece theme
was "Staying the Course: Great Public Schools for Every Child". NWOEA
representatives attended sessions on: Developing Cultural Identiy,
Safe Schools, Protecting the Retirement Security of Members, I Can Do
It, No Child Left Behind, Social Security Offsets and Breaking the
Cycle of Poverty in addition to hearing speeches by: Baltimore's
Mayor, NEA President Reg Weaver, NEA Secretary - Treasurer Lily
Eskelsen, Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Ohio State Senator the
Honorable C.J. Prentiss. They also celebrated the 100th birthday of
Dr. Seuss. Over 400 members from the states of: Maryland, Delaware,
North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Federal, and Virginia
attended the conference with 91 OEA members from the great state of
Ohio.
