Approved

POSITIONS OPEN FOR NOMINATION

CEA may be eligible to elect up to 30 state delegates to the NEA RA in 2020. Here are descriptions of the open positions:

Category 1 At-Large/State Delegate: Fifteen Positions (Term: two years)

Category 1 At-Large/Ethnic Minority Concerns: Four Positions (Term: 2

years)

These categories must have Active classroom teachers (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) in local affiliates are eligible for these positions.

Aspiring Educators: one Position (Term: 1 Year)

Only Aspiring Educators with a SEA and NEA membership are eligible for this position.

Membership Units: nine positions from specific Membership Units (Term: one year)

Only active members (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who teach in a local CEA affiliate in one of the seventeen Membership Units may be nominated for these positions. The nine open units include E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P & Q.

Unit E:

Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman

Unit F:

Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge

Unit H:

ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott

Unit J:

Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield

Unit K:

Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill

Unit L:

Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor

Unit M:

Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks

Unit P:

East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford

Unit Q:

Clinton, East Haddam, East Hampton, Guilford, Haddam-Killingworth, Madison, Old Saybrook, Regional 4, Regional 13, Regional 18, Portland, Westbrook

Category 2 At-Large: One position (Term interim position open this year)

Nominees for the Category 2 At-Large position must be Active members (Membership Type AC-1) in supervisor/administrator positions or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who are no longer teaching—but only if they are not also NEA-Retired members. (NEA Life membership is a special category terminated in 1973.) Members with Active Life Memberships who are not retired from teaching are eligible for Category 2. NEA-Retired Members for Life (Membership Type RT-7) or annual Retired members (Membership Type RT-8) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CATEGORY 2