Professional Oklahoma Educators

Professional Oklahoma Educators is an organization of about 2,500 teachers and school support personnel in Oklahoma. It employs a staff of fewer than 10 at its headquarters on Campus Corner in Norman, Oklahoma. Professional Oklahoma Educators serves as an alternative to teacher labor unions and provides its members with liability insurance and legal advice on job-related matters. Professional Oklahoma Educators also lobbies on education issues before the Oklahoma Legislature. Executive Director Ginger Tinney and former state Rep. Doug Miller are registered as lobbyists for the organization with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission. Professional Oklahoma Educators promotes itself as nonunion and nonpartisan, citing its policies against work stoppages, political endorsements and campaign financing. Until 2007, the organization was known as the Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators or APOE.
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