Why Join

Membership in the Virginia Education Association means:

• Help in winning better pay and working conditions

• Tough, effective representation that ensures our rights are protected

• Leadership training

• Access to research projects, studies, and information that help make us even better qualified professional educators

• Support from a professional UniServ staff person

• Lobbying representation that brings our issues before the General Assembly, Congress and the public

• Insurance protection, including $1 million of liability coverage automatically included with membership

• Special discounts and services that help us stretch our dollars.

The purpose of ACEA shall be to:

• Speak for education.

• Advance the cause of education for all individuals.

• Promote professional excellence among members.

• Gain recognition of the basic importance of the members in the learning process.

• Protect the rights of members and advance their interests and welfare.

• Secure professional autonomy.

• Unite members for effective citizenship.

• Promote and protect human and civil rights.

• Obtain for its members the benefits of an independent united teaching profession.