Feb-Mar 2021 Advisor

REPRESENTING

12 CEA ADVISOR FEBRUARY–MARCH 2021

2021 NEA RA, CEA RA RETIRED DELEGATES ELECTED The CEA Elections Committee met in December to review nominations for the 2021 state delegate election to the NEA Representative Assembly (RA) and the CEA RA.

candidates were declared elected based on CEA elections policies, which state, “In the event that the number of candidates equals the number of positions available, the candidates shall be declared elected.” Names and photographs of the candidates declared elected appear below.

All uncontested NEA RA state delegate candidates and CEA RA retired delegates were declared elected by the CEA Elections Committee. The

NEA RA CATEGORY 1 AT-LARGE DELEGATES

CEA RA RETIRED ELECTED DELEGATES

James Bradley

Marilyn Della Rocco

George Flaherty

Tara Flaherty

Katy Gale

Rae Baczek

Myles Cohen

Vidyotma Gupta

Jeff Leake

Doreen Lopez

Tom Nicholas

Brian Serapiglia

Pat Jordan

Mary Beth Lang

LOCALS WITH FEWER THAN 76 MEMBERS ELIGIBLE FOR NEA CLUSTER DELEGATES

Natalie Lynne Smith

Glenn Spencer

Stephanie Wanzer

requirements.

Local affiliates with fewer than 76 members are combined by county to form cluster membership units for the purpose of representation at the 2021 NEA Representative Assembly (RA), which will be a virtual meeting. The locals within each county cluster are encouraged to share costs. County clusters are achieved by identifying locals within those counties that have fewer than 76 members and, as such, are not eligible to elect a delegate to the NEA RA. Nomination procedures and eligibility requirements All members of local affiliates identified as part of a county nomination form contains a list of local affiliates that have fewer than 76 members as of January 15, 2021. Active classroom teacher members or NEA Life members are eligible to be nominated, provided their local is within a county cluster where an election is being held. Members may nominate themselves or other members in accordance with the eligibility cluster are eligible for nomination. The online

The County Cluster Nomination Form must be completed and submitted online by the last business day in March—Wednesday, March 31, 2021. County cluster positions available • Fairfield/New Haven County Cluster: 1 position • New London County Cluster: 5 positions • Litchfield County Cluster: 3 positions • Tolland County Cluster: 3 positions • Windham County Cluster: 5 positions Election procedures If an election is required, each candidate nominated will receive equal space for his/her photograph (supplied by each candidate) published in the April edition of the CEA Advisor . Ballots will be printed in the CEA Advisor in the appropriate county in which the election is held. Properly completed ballots must be postmarked no later than the last business day in April—Friday, April 30, 2021. qualifications, experience, campaign statement, and

COUNTY DIRECTORS ELECTED Members elected to CEA Board The following candidates have been declared elected in their respective counties.

New Haven

Middlesex

Fairfield

Kristen Record, Stratford

Marilyn Della Rocco, CES

Joe Holloway, East Hampton

Peter Downhour, Amity

Hartford

Kate Dias, Manchester

Heidi Florian, Newington

Lisa Cordova, CREC

Theresa McKeown, West Hartford

Windham

Tolland

Read the list of rules and requirements and complete your NEA County Cluster Delegate nomination form at cea.org/nea-ra-cluster-delegate-nominations .

Nicola Able, Killingly

Paul Giblin, Bolton