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	Members of the Kenosha Education Association take an oath as they get ready to register voters for the fall elections.
	Mark Denning (right), director of the Southeast Oneida Tribal Services Department in Milwaukee, and Christine G. Rodriguez of Rockwell Automations visit WEAC's Great Schools exhibit.
	Members of the Clintonville Education Association sponsored floats in the Embarrass Fun Daze parade (August 7, 2004). Photo Gallery.
	New Holstein Education Association members engage in an informational picket July 19 before a school board meeting. Story - Photo Gallery.
	NEA President Reg Weaver delivers his keynote address to Representative Assembly delegates July 4. The NEA Representative Assembly met July 2-7 in Washington, D.C. Story.
	Government and education leaders draw media attention to the pitfalls of the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights at a news conference in Green Bay June 3, 2004. Photo Gallery. Story.
	NEA Director Bob Fullmer (right), of Watertown, served as parliamentarian for the Southern Lakes United Educators annual meeting. He is pictured here with SLUE Secretary Carla Bradley and SLUE President Jack Clement.
	WEAC General Counsel Bruce Meredith testifies in Washington, D.C. before the Special Committee on Aging May 17.
	Arrowhead United Teachers Organization members display their signs to drivers near the district administration office. AUTO members have been working without a contract since July 2003. Photo gallery. Story.
	NEA Secretary-Treasurer Lily Eskelsen speaks to members during the WEAC-Retired conference May 14. She spoke about about the Bush administration's agenda to privatize public services like Social Security, Medicare and public education. Photo gallery.
	Retiring Hayward teacher and former leader Diane Hedin receives her recognition and application to join WEAC-Retired . Hedin was one of several teachers and education support professionals honored at the annual NUE Retirement Banquet.
	Kay Hansen, Education Support Professional in the Denmark School District, introduces Wisconsin's First Lady Jessica Doyle to Denmark Elementary School students.
	WEAC-Retired President Allen Knop talks to more than 30 retirees, spouses and other members in the Southern Lakes United Educators UniServ.
	Past and present WEAC Professional Development Academy Board members gather May 8 for a luncheon and awards ceremony. Photo gallery.
	Delegates from Northwest United Educators generate several hundred postcards to their legislators opposing the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR.
	Students at Westside School in Sun Prairie present a check to Ronald McDonald to help support the Ronald McDonald House in Madison. Photo gallery.
	As part of the Brown Bag Earth Day Project, students from John Bullen Middle School in Kenosha decorated grocery bags to raise environmental awareness. Photo gallery.
	About 75 Arrowhead Union High School District teachers and supporters picket outside the school administration building to protest stalled contract talks.
	Student WEA members Katie Schaumann (left) and Kay Stickland paint a mural in a classroom at Wittenberg Middle and Elementary School during the Outreach to Teach project April 18. Story - Photo Gallery.
	Northwest United Educators members held a banquet April 14 in Rice Lake to honor outstanding students and teachers. Story - Photo Gallery.
	About 100 teachers, education support professionals, administrators, school board members and others write to their legislators at a postcard-writing party in a church basement in Beaver Dam
	Marie Fatzinger, Geri U'ren and Carol Bertram were on the prowl in 28 southwest Wisconsin area schools, reading and handing out stickers to young students to celebrate Read Across America in March.
	Congressman Paul Ryan visited Pleasant View School in Franklin March 22 to celebrate NEA’s Read Across America. During his visit, Rep. Ryan toured the school and read the Dr. Seuss classic "Green Eggs and Ham" to a group of students.
	WEAC Executive Director Michael A. Butera explains Wisconsin's collective bargaining process and education politics to visitors from Pakistan.
	Four education support personnel representatives from Wisconsin display wings they received from an airline pilot after a harrowing experience on their trip to the NEA ESP Conference in Charlotte, N.C.
	Parents, community members, educators and students enjoy great food at the Gillett Education Association's 4th annual Chili Dinner. The event raised money for student scholarships.
	Members of the Southern Lakes United Educators ESP Committee and guest speakers attend the Education Support Professionals dinner.
	Members of the CESA #11 Head Start bargaining team attend a Northwest United Educators session called Bargaining Behavior Training at the NUE office. Photo gallery.
	Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center in Union Grove held its first Mother's Fair in February. More than 150 of the center's female inmates participated in the event, which had 21 exhibitors present to provide information about nutrition, pre-release planning, family services, post-secondary education and women's health issues. Story.
	Stevens Point teachers, support staff, students, PTO members, and concerned community members conduct informational picketing to protest proposed staff reductions and program cuts.
	The Cat in the Hat joins Governor Doyle, First Lady Jessica Doyle and WEAC President Stan Johnson in celebrating Read Across America at Riverside Elementary School in Menomonee Falls.
	About 500 members attend the 2004 WEAC Winter Conference in Appleton. Photo gallery. Story.
	WEAC members statewide celebrate author Dr. Suess's 100th birthday during Read Across America events on March 2. Photo Gallery.
	Five members of the Athens Education Association and three family members attend the February 29 University of Wisconsin-Madison men's basketball game against Purdue. Bob Lange (left) won eight luxury suite tickets to the game in an OnWEAC e-mail collection contest.
	State Sen. Mark Meyer (center) meets with WEAC Government Relations Program Specialist John Peter (left) and Curt Christensen, a WEAC Board member who represents Coulee Region United Educators, during a February 26 Lobby Day event. Photo Gallery. Story.
	The Denmark Education Support Professionals and the Denmark Education Association worked a recent scholarship fund-raiser.
	In a show of solidarity, Clintonville Education Association member Ed Johnson and his father, Fred, support striking workers at Albertson Foods in Desert Palms, California.
	About 500 local association leaders meet in Wisconsin Dells to develop plans for winning repeal of the Qualified Economic Offer law and school district revenue controls. Photo Gallery. Large panorama. Story
	Members promoted the NEA's Read Across America at the Northwest United Educators Education Fair January 31 at Cedar Mall in Rice Lake.
	Twelve educators were honored January 26 as "Topnotch Teachers" by WISC-TV in Madison.
	Eau Claire Association of Educators President Jo Ellen Burke addresses the Eau Claire School Board. "Since 1993, when the QEO (Qualified Economic Offer) law was enacted, we have continued to fall below comparable school districts' salary schedules," she said. Story.
	This photo, taken at the Tigerton Lumberjack Days Parade in August, speaks for itself. (For more information, visit OnWEAC's Resource Page on the ESEA.)
	WEAC staffers Dianne Hellenbrand and Linda Sies package holiday toy donations for the families of striking Tyson workers.
	Clintonville Middle School Principal Barb Sparish gets the "full dessert" from teacher David Lemmenes. It was all in good fun as Mrs. Sparish, soon to have some minor surgery, needed to get her holiday desserts in quick order. All 400 students were able to witness the "send off."
	The Janesville Gazette featured front-page photo coverage of efforts by Rock Valley United Teachers-Retired to collect items for striking workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Jefferson
	The WEAC Professional Development Academy and the state Department of Public Instruction brought nine Japanese teachers and a Japanese travel escort to Wisconsin this fall to visit schools, educators and students and share perspectives about education. Story
	WEAC Vice President Terry Meyer visits with teachers Jane O'Connell and Wendy Severson at North High School in Eau Claire during American Education Week.
	WEAC members examine classroom reading material at one of the exhibits during the WEAC Convention October 30-31 in Milwaukee. Photo gallery. Convention coverage.
	Governor Doyle speaks to Longfellow Elementary School students in Eau Claire about the importance of school breakfast programs.
	First Lady Jessica Doyle visits with students in Linda Riesen's class at Forest Park Middle School in Franklin.
	Joan Chwala, who teaches at Gilman Elementary School, puts her WEAC Summer Academy training to use at the National American Legion Auxiliary Convention in St. Louis. Using skills she learned in the Summer Academy's Public Relations session, Chwala succinctly made her case in successfully arguing against a motion from the floor.
	Cristina Diaz-Arntzen, of Waukesha, sells items from Guatemala to raise money for books for the kids at a sister school in Guatemala.
	Southern Lakes United Educators (SLUE) member Gail Kubas learns to use iMidas, WEAC's membership reporting software for local treasurers. WEAC staffer Patti Westphal visited SLUE to demonstrate the program.
	Northwest United Educators (NUE) President Larry Lindquist delivers the opening remarks during the association's fall conference, held September 27 in Rice Lake.
	"We are all part of the same movement for fairness and justice, and WEAC will support the men and women of the Tyson strike every step of the way," WEAC President Stan Johnson says at a rally outside the Tyson Foods plant in Jefferson.
	NEA President Reg Weaver urges members of Central Wisconsin UniServ Council to "make some noise" as they advocate for continued quality public education.
	WEAC President Stan Johnson speaks to Nekoosa teachers and supporters at a park prior to picketing. Photo gallery. — Panorama from park. — Panorama from school board meeting. (*Note:* Panoramas are very large files.)
	Northwest United Educators (NUE) members and staff assist striking workers at the Shadow Plastics plant in Rice Lake. The 18 union members at this plant were on strike for several weeks. A tentative agreement was reached in late September.
	Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian presents a plaque to Kenosha Education Association Vice President Beth Adelsen. She received a Distinguished Service Award from the Kenosha labor community.
	Fifth-grade students from Crestwood Elementary School in Madison competed at a national level on a civics project in which they fought to restore outdoor morning recess.
	More than 100 people, many of them WEAC members, marched outside Serb Hall in Milwaukee to support Governor Doyle's veto the property tax freeze plan.
	Adult students study blacksmithing, one of dozens of classes offered at the weeklong School of the Arts at Rhinelander.
	Betsy Migarcz and Emily Zakrzewski of South Milwaukee proudly display the "hands" they decorated at WEAC's Great Schools Booth at the State Fair in West Allis.
	Vickie Schumann, of Reedsburg, proudly displays the Great Schools poster she created in the Public Relations training session at the 2003 WEAC Summer Academy. Photo gallery. Story.