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Some of our members have not come to realize yet just how much control legislators, as a group, have over their wages and working conditions. The truth is that an average of about $8 of each $10 that funds our schools is under the direct control of the Alabama Legislature. Salary increases, retirement, health insurance, sick leave, fair dismissal procedures are all under their direct purview, as are funds for reading, math, and science, textbooks and instructional supplies. Practically every aspect of our members’ professional lives are impacted by the men and women elected to the Legislature.
Adequate funding for public education remains a monumental challenge for all Alabamians but especially for AEA’s 100,000 members, whose professional lives as well as livelihoods are bound to the future of the state’s schools. Every substantial aspect of education employees’ daily working lives is directly dependent on funding allocated by state and local elected officials.
Whether the legislature is considering sweeping changes in statewide budgets or a local principal is diverting instructional supply money intended for teachers – whatever the arena - AEA staff and resources are engaged and available to ensure that precious education dollars reach their intended destination.
As state budgets have tightened over the past several years, AEA has led the fight for tax fairness, exposing gross inequities that allow corporations to escape taxation while Alabama’s schoolchildren bear the burden of reduced funding and employees’ families are threatened with cuts in health care and compensation. For generations AEA has been and remains Alabama’s preeminent advocate of funding for public education.