Bargaining.
Negotiating a strong contract that improves our students’ learning conditions and our working conditions is critical.
🍎 What can you do? Take the bargaining survey and join the bargaining team.
Budget.
We organize and advocate every year to pass a budget that will fund our contract and improve our schools for our students.
Did you know our schools are funded by two separate budgets, called the operating budget and the capital budget? Learn more about how these different funding streams work.
🍎 What can you do? Sign up to lobby the Board of Education and County Council and attend budget-related actions.
Ballots.
This year we have BIG elections – 16 in all at the local level. Want to learn more? Visit our Elections 2026 landing page.
🍎 What can you do? Sign up to join MCEA’s caucus interviewing local candidates, donate a buck a pay period to the PAC (because union dues CANNOT be used for political activity), and volunteer for a shift at the polls in June 2026 to hand out Apple Ballots to voters.