Legislation

Thanks to electing a pro-education legislative majority in 2022, we have made great strides on behalf of educators and our students, including:

Implementing free school breakfast and lunch for all students.
Providing a record level of state funding for PreK-12+ and higher education.
Dramatically increasing investments in student mental health support, student loan forgiveness for educators, school safety, educator recruitment, rural transportation and more.
Fixing the state’s broken teacher evaluation law and replacing it with locally driven evaluation standards to help educators develop their craft.
Eliminating prohibited subjects of bargaining, including teacher placement, evaluation, support staff privatization and more, as well as doing away with automatic financial penalties on employees when a contract expires.
Providing much-needed tax relief for retired educators and working families, including rolling back the unfair tax on retired school employees’ pensions and expanding the Working Families Tax Credit.
Finally passing common-sense gun safety legislation that requires universal background checks, safe storage of firearms and extreme risk protection orders.

Please contribute to MEA-PAC so we can keep up the momentum! We must protect our narrow majority in the Legislature in this November’s election — or else all of the progress we’ve made could be wiped away. Voluntary contributions from MEA members are used to support candidates who value public education and labor rights — like those who voted to value our students, respect our educators, and fund our schools.

Did You Know:

Every two years, MEA members discuss and approves MEA’s Legislative Priorities, which guides our work in Lansing. Read the current document and provide your comments for future legislative sessions.

Learn more about MEA legislative activities at MEA.org/legislation, including how you can make your voice heard on key issues like the state education budget, health insurance costs, and restoring quality retirement for educators.