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Fair Pay & Benefits

You shouldn’t have to choose between following your passion and making a living.
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Fair pay and fair benefits ensure the best and brightest can join and stay in our profession–for that’s what our communities deserve.

​Simply put, educators deserve professional pay for professional work — and the members of The SCEA are the premier advocates fighting to ensure you’re paid what you’re worth. This also means stopping legislative cuts to your benefits such as health insurance and retirement.

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Our students are very important to us. But we can’t take care of them if we can’t take care of ourselves.
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