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AEA Is Keeping the Promise of Quality Public Education
With more than 20,000 members, the Arizona Education Association is the largest professional association for public school employees in Arizona.
AEA is a professional association and a labor union, advocating on behalf of students, staff, and teachers in Arizona.

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More than 20,000 members elect over 550 delegates to the Delegate Assembly, the highest decision-making body within AEA.

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Students, educators, workers, allies—we all have a home in our union.

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The Arizona Education Association is a great place to work! Check out our job openings below.

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Our communications team works with news media across platforms to tell the stories of our members and local affiliates working together across Arizona to strengthen our advocacy efforts.

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AEA helps members and affiliates get the resources they need to grow as professionals, activists, and organization leaders.
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We do this collectively in our worksites, in our locals, on the soccer fields, and on the buses. We do this with our neighbors and in our communities. We do this together, because there is strength in numbers.
Quote by: Marisol Garcia, AEA President

The AEA Foundation

The AEA Foundation for Teaching & Learning supports teaching and learning in Arizona with student scholarships, professional development opportunities and grants for innovative classroom projects. Since 1997, the Foundation has generated over $1,200,000 in income and has awarded more than $900,000 in grants to students, teachers, and education support professionals throughout Arizona.
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Keeping the Promise of Quality Public Education

With more than 20,000 members, the Arizona Education Association (AEA) is the largest professional association for public school employees in Arizona. AEA members are teachers, community college professors, counselors, speech pathologists, bus drivers, secretaries, retired educators and student teachers and they belong to more than 150 local affiliates across Arizona.
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The Arizona Education Association is a state affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest professional employee organization. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States.

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