It doesn’t all stop on the day you retire from teaching or other school employment. Your daily routine might change, but you are still the professional who invested years, as well as sweat and tears, into making our Virginia public schools the best they can be. And you’ll still want to be an integral part of your professional community, the Virginia Education Association-Retired.
See below for information on who can join and for answers to frequently-asked questions about VEA-Retired.
If you have additional question about VEA-Retired memberships or any problems with the online enrollment process, please Call VEA at 1-800-552-9554.
The 2022 Fall meeting of the VEA-Retired Council.
VEA-Retired is part of the social media world. Have you checked out our page yet? Keep up with your colleagues, post comments about events in your area, and share ideas.
VEA-Retired publishes Connections, a regular newsletter to keep you informed on all the action, including elections, events, and activities. Check out the latest issue.
VEA has great local contacts for VEA-Retired around the state. Get in touch!
Current officers of VEA-Retired are:
The president and other officers are elected by VEA-Retired members to a two-year term and may be elected to a second two-year term. The president’s term includes serving as a delegate to the VEA Delegate Assembly and the NEA Representative Assembly.
These folks are local contacts for VEA-Retired chapters around the state.
The VEA-Retired Council consists of the president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, immediate past president, the VEA-Retired member(s) of the VEA Board of Directors, and an elected representative from each of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts. Those elected representatives on the 2024-25 VEA-Retired Council are:
Want more information?
Contact VEA-Retired President Lola McDowell, or VEA staff liaison Bea Snidow.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, teachers in Virginia earn 67 cents on the dollar compared to other (non-teacher) college-educated workers. Virginia’s teacher wage penalty is the worst in the nation.
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