YOU'RE INVITED: 2017 EdMN Political Conference

Greetings, local leaders!

Online registration for the 2017 Political Conference is now live! We have made some exciting changes to the conference and hope that you will send at least one person from your local. See full details about the conference schedule and session themes on the Education Minnesota website.

The first member from each local will have all conference and lodging fees covered. Local presidents can give the discount code "PCfirstmember" to their designated attendee. That person will enter the code when registering.

Fees for sending additional members:

Hotel rooms are included in the registration fee and will not be billed separately. All hotel rooms will be single-occupancy, unless double-occupancy is requested. 

Friday and Saturday participant, with hotel - $80 per member: Includes all sessions on Friday and Saturday, meals, parking and a single hotel room. One member from each local will be fully funded by Education Minnesota (see below for more details). 

Friday and Saturday participant, without hotel - $40 per member: Includes all sessions on Friday and Saturday, meals, parking (no hotel). 

Friday only - $20 per member: Dinner on Friday evening, parking and admission to the gubernatorial candidate forum.

Education Minnesota will pay all conference and lodging fees for ESPs and Education Minnesota student members.

Also new this year: members will be eligible to receive a child care reimbursement, per Education Minnesota financial policies. Members can receive up to $60 a day for child care with a signed, official receipt or invoice from the daycare or babysitter. Receipt books can be purchased wherever office supplies are sold.

Go to this website to view conference information and the registration page to see how members will be asked to sign up. This page is also linked to on the Education Minnesota website.

The scholarship application process is also live. Members can apply for a full or partial scholarship on the scholarship application webpage.

There are changes to the scholarship process this year.

To receive a full scholarship, members must make commitments to two or more activities or roles in the 2018 campaign. Partial scholarships will be awarded to members who commit to at least one activity or role.

Here are the qualifying activities and roles:

Worksite political action leaders
Local union political action leaders
Digital engagement leaders
Commitment to at least two doorknocking or phonebanking shifts

Full descriptions of these activities and roles are on the scholarship application webpage.Members will receive a discount code for their registration fees once their application is approved.

Finally, we have confirmed plans for a regional political conference at Bemidji State University on Feb. 2-3. A pre-registration link for this conference is now available online.

If you'd like the web links to copy and paste into your own emails, please use the following:

Here is the Education Minnesota website page on the political conference -- includes all links listed below:https://www.educationminnesota.org/advocacy/politicalaction/Political-conference

Here is the live registration link:
http://www.cvent.com/events/political-conference-2017/event-summary-a3743bea0807477dbb4a448725659cfe.aspx

Here is the scholarship application link:
https://www.cvent.com/c/express/fc007dea-71bc-41c6-be88-bb81341ae1a5

Here is the Bemidji regional conference pre-registration link:
https://goo.gl/forms/pEkn0o6GopT23wJw1

Questions? Contact Anna Brelje via email or at 651-292-4841.