Something Better Magazine
MNEA's Flagship publication
Something Better is MNEA’s digital magazine. Members can expect to receive this magazine three times per year, delivered to their home email addresses. MNEA features accomplishments and personal stories of members as well as issues affecting public school students and staff.
Feature Articles
When a decertification petition threatened years of hard-won protections, INEA members organized building by building. Rebecca Mace teaches library media at Independence Academy. She cares deeply...
When a noxious odor at Francis Howell North made staff and students sick, FHEA members built a reporting network, documented every incident, and pushed until the district acted. Francine Hill does not...
After years of losing colleagues to low pay and zero contract protections, the nurses of Columbia Public Schools built a bargaining unit with Columbia MNEA and MNEA's support, and every single vote...
North Kansas City NEA's newly ratified agreement strengthened teacher-directed planning time, secured leave protections, and won exclusive access to new educators, all built on 30 years of leadership...
It has been a privilege to start the year with you. MNEA members have demonstrated remarkable professional commitment and are moving public education forward across the state. Our lawsuit to block $51...
Made possible by the NEA Public Schools Grant. Working Conditions Listening Tour An educator’s working conditions are a student’s learning environment. With this guiding premise, we have embarked on...
Once a month, MNEA Director of Professional Policy & Practice, Samantha Hayes, will send out the Professional Practice Pulse, a communication to give frequent updates on the activity and action, when...
by Samantha Hayes, Director of Professional Policy & Practice Modernization Task Force Following the Money: What Missouri NEA is Watching in School Funding Modernization Missouri's school funding...
Kimberly Sixta doesn't just teach at Ruskin High School in Hickman Mills. She grew up there. She walks the same hallways she walked as a student. She teaches the children of former classmates. And...
By Samantha Hayes, MNEA Director of Professional Policy & Practice Missouri NEA is fighting voucher schemes in court because the evidence is clear: universal vouchers drain resources from public...
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