Why Join?
Belonging to the Pueblo Education Association brings many rewards and benefits, both professionally and personally. By joining PEA, CEA, and NEA, members gain access to a wealth of professional growth opportunities. Members also receive group discounts and deals that translate into thousands of dollars saved on home financing, credit cards, insurance, vacations, and more.
View CEA Member Benefits | View NEA Member Benefits
Educational Excellence and Leadership
PEA promotes programs that support educational excellence and equity. Through collective bargaining and our own initiatives, PEA focuses on areas that enhance student achievement, increase multi-cultural awareness and promote collaboration in support of student success.
Collective Bargaining
Both the NEA and CEA provide support to PEA in the bargaining process with PCS. The highly trained bargaining team works to ensure that our voices are heard on the issues that affect us and our students. In this way, we actively seek to create positive teaching and learning environments that support student success.
In addition to bargaining issues related to salary, benefits, and due process, the Team works to promote educator voices on critical issues including:
The Beauty of a Dollar Saved
In addition to the other benefits of belonging, PEA members also enjoy many discount programs and perks.
Belonging to the Pueblo Education Association brings many rewards and benefits, both professionally and personally. By joining PEA, CEA, and NEA, members gain access to a wealth of professional growth opportunities. Members also receive group discounts and deals that translate into thousands of dollars saved on home financing, credit cards, insurance, vacations, and more.
View CEA Member Benefits | View NEA Member Benefits
Educational Excellence and Leadership
PEA promotes programs that support educational excellence and equity. Through collective bargaining and our own initiatives, PEA focuses on areas that enhance student achievement, increase multi-cultural awareness and promote collaboration in support of student success.
Collective Bargaining
Both the NEA and CEA provide support to PEA in the bargaining process with PCS. The highly trained bargaining team works to ensure that our voices are heard on the issues that affect us and our students. In this way, we actively seek to create positive teaching and learning environments that support student success.
In addition to bargaining issues related to salary, benefits, and due process, the Team works to promote educator voices on critical issues including:
- Implementing a fair and effective educator evaluation system
- The implementation of Senate Bill 191 provisions
- Ensuring teacher and school leader hiring decisions are made jointly by each school’s teachers and principal (Personnel Committee)
- Teachers are viewed as professionals in our district
The Beauty of a Dollar Saved
In addition to the other benefits of belonging, PEA members also enjoy many discount programs and perks.
- CEA Attorney Referral Program: Members receive special rates from participating attorneys for non-job related legal matters
- PEA/PCS Sick Leave Bank: By donating one sick day a year, members are eligible to access a “bank” of extra sick days for extended illnesses, maternity or paternity leave
- NEA Member Benefits: Through NEA, members gain access to a host of programs designed to save members money on everything from theme park passes, to magazine subscriptions, to home mortgages
- AUTOMOBILE & HOME Insurance via A+ and California Casualty: Members receive significant savings on car and home owners’ insurance
- NEA Dues-Tab: Members automatically receive no-cost life insurance through this NEA sponsored program
- NEA Educators Liability Insurance via Horace Mann Insurance Company: Members receive $1 million dollars in liability insurance for protection in job-related criminal and civil actions