Final totals for the Region 39 ESP delegates to the 2023 IEA Representative Assembly are as follows: Efren Ramos - 320 Amanda Wood - 320 Laurie DeKruiff - 306 Dion Hill - 303 Nina Mayer - 68 Region Ethnic Minority-At-large Alternate: Juan "Johnny" Ramos - 335

NUMA Members, We wanted to take this time to update everyone on things we have been working on with our executive team.  As a team that has seen some changes over the last couple of weeks we would like to take this time to keep everyone informed.  We have been meeting and working on our... Continue Reading →

As some of you may or may not be aware there have been some recent changes within our NUMA executive board over the last week with Kevin taking on his new role as the District operations manager.  We wish him the best of luck in his new position.  I would like to bring you up... Continue Reading →

Election held: 3/08/2022 Votes tallied: 3/09/2022 NUMA Vice President Will Lewis NUMA Secretary Leslie Fromhertz NUMA Delegate to 2022 NEA RA Leslie Fromhertz^ Region 39 Chair Rob Hunt* Region 39 Vice Chair Kristyn Reed* *These results are based on NUMA vote tallies ONLY. They are not official until vote tallies are in from NUEA, NESPA,... Continue Reading →

The District 203 Board of Education met in an impromptu emergency session this morning and, as you have recently been informed, have announced a shift in mask policy based on local transmission and vaccination rates and as of Tuesday February 15th,  masks will remain strongly recommended in District 203, but they will no longer be... Continue Reading →

As you are all aware, a judge in downstate Illinois issued a temporary restraining order with regard to the governor’s mask mandate late in the day on Friday. That order has been the subject of tremendous speculation all weekend with regard to what it meant or did not mean. Attorneys from various districts and from... Continue Reading →

    We finally have resolution on House Bill 2778….sort of. Having passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly, the COVID School Employee Benefit and Wage Protection Bill sat waiting to be signed by Governor Pritzker. The Governor had been fairly vocal about his opposition to the bill as it was written, specifically that it... Continue Reading →

Fellow NUMA Members, Arguments were heard by Judge Raylene D. Grischow yesterday on the Plaintiff’s motion for TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) in the case regarding mask mandate and quarantine requirements. She took the TRO motion under advisement, meaning that a ruling is differed. Having given both sides until January 27th to file Orders, there will... Continue Reading →

This update comes in the interest of keeping you all in the loop and as a potentially important heads-up. Some of you are aware that a lawsuit challenging the statewide school mask mandate and quarantine requirements for students (Austin V. The B.O.E. of C.U.S.D. #300, et al.) has been winding its way through the Illinois... Continue Reading →