"We’re entering the next phase of the Fund Our Future campaign as we continue to fight for funding for public higher education and as we build local campaigns to spend funds provided by the Student Opportunity Act for PreK-12 public schools.

Join us at the second of two Fund Our Future Bootcamps on Saturday, January 11th at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel. Please RSVP at bit.ly/FOFBootcamp2.

We will be bringing together students, parents, and educators from across the state to train together and make plans for the next phase of the Fund Our Future campaign. With $1.5 billion dollars in public school funding coming to our communities, we must take our fight to local school committees and build strong local campaigns that demand students receive all that they’ve been promised and that they deserve."

"Join forces with other higher education members and strategize about how we can be “Powered Up in 2020” to meet the challenges facing public higher education and win on the issues that are important to us."

"At this conference, MTA higher education locals will join with other unions that represent classified and professional staff, faculty, librarians, grant-funded workers, and graduate and postdoctoral student employees. Together, members of the MTA, AFT, AFSCME, SEIU, UAW and other unions, as well as student organizations and allies, will hold discussions and workshops related to the Cherish Act, contract bargaining and comprehensive campaigns, as well as critical issues in higher education, including early college enrollment, privatization, full-time employment, the impacts of increased online education, student debt and the austerity narrative. The dinner program will also include a keynote by Caitlin Zaloom, author of Indebted."