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More than 84,000 educators from preservice teachers who are studying to enter the profession to retired educators belong to Education Minnesota. 

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Minnesota’s teacher pension system is inequitable and one of the least flexible in the country. Join our fight for pension reform! Sign up for email updates, write your legislators, hold a pension meeting in your local and more!

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The Great Minnesota Get-together will be here sooner than you know it! Request your three-hour shift now for our State Fair booth. Member volunteers take pictures for our free photo calendars and act as ambassadors to fairgoers.

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Education support professionals are eligible to apply for unemployment insurance in the summer months under new state law passed in 2023. The only way to know if you qualify and how much you would get is by applying so apply today!

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Meet the 2024 Teacher of the Year

Minnesota’s 2024 Teacher of the Year has walked a nontraditional path to the classroom. But ninth-grade English and Language Arts teacher Tracy Byrd wanted to provide the access to quality education that he found lacking in his own experience. “Growing up, I never had a teacher who looked like me,” Byrd said. “I wanted to make sure that other students don’t have that same problem.”

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