Right now, there’s a crucial struggle about to unfold in the Illinois Legislature that will impact every staff member, student, and family in Chicago’s schools.
Thank you to the principals and assistant principals who participated in the Elected School Board Forums last week. It was crucial for laying the groundwork for inclusion after the elections.
AFSA views the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset as an important goal for educators and other public employees who have been unfairly penalized.
When Zulema Naegele thinks of her childhood, she says being an educator was far from her mind. The eldest of five children raised in Mesa, Arizona, she never dreamed that one day she would teach and then become a high school principal.
“I’m the oldest of 30+ cousins and was always the one to line them up and help them all hit the piñata,” she says. “But I didn’t want to be their teacher!”
