Putting the Spotlight on Clerical Services
In the New Member Tips, we’ll highlight a different ESP classification by providing job information, statistics and professional development ideas and resources. The data and the information come from “2002 Status of NEA K-12 ESP Membership Study.” This information can be used in newsletters, flyers to the community or in a bargaining strategy.
This month the focus is on clerical services.
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NEA lists the following areas as part of clerical services:
secretarial; clerical and administrative services; office assistants; bookkeepers; accounting and financial assistants; statistics, payroll, and general office assistants; registration and records attendants; and telephone operators. -
More than 75 percent of clerical services ESP live and vote in the school district where they work. More than one-third have children in the same school system.
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Clerical services makes up more than 17 percent of NEA ESP members. That means more than 56,000 people.
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Twenty-five percent of clerical services work with special education students.
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Over 80 percent of clerical services employees have attended professional development training in the past two years.
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Wages for 53 percent of clerical services employees are paid on an hourly basis.
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Clerical services employees look for professional development training in the following areas:
Computer and software skills
Language arts
Records management
Time management
Financial recordkeeping, spreadsheets and databases
Accounting
Business law
Office administration and technology
Business communications
School law