WEA Trust

The WEA Trust is a not-for-profit insurance organization headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. It was created in 1970 by Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) to provide insurance and benefit plans tailored to fit the needs of their members—Wisconsin public school employees and their families.

Offering a multitude of different solutions for insurance and healthcare related needs, WEA Trust is an alternative to traditional commercial insurance companies. A Board of Trustees oversees all of the financial and operations aspects of the business without receiving any form of monetary compensation.

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Wea

The Wea were a Miami-Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana, closely related to the Miami Tribe. The name Wea is used today as the a shortened version of their numerous recorded names. The Wea name for themselves (autonym) in their own language is waayaahtanwa, derived from waayaahtanonki, 'place of the whirlpool', their name where they were first recorded being seen and is where they were living at that time. The different spellings of their name is numerous, as they were made by different settlers from different language and educational backgrounds. One French version is Ouiatenon; another Ouiateno; there were Wea villages, whose sites are now known as Lafayette and Terre Haute, Indiana, respectively. In 2004 the Indiana Historical Bureau installed a marker commemorating the Wea Village in Terre Haute and its living descendants. The Wea spoke a dialect of Miami, the same language as the Miami Tribe, both from the Algonquian languages.

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WEA

The Wea are a Native American tribe.

It is also the name of Wea, Kansas.

WEA is an acronym for:

We`a is a town in Djibouti

Workers' Educational Association

The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) seeks to provide access to education and lifelong learning for adults from all backgrounds, and in particular those who have previously missed out on education. The International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA) has consultative status to UNESCO. Archbishop William Temple was a strong proponent of workers’ education.

Albert Mansbridge (10 January 1876 - 22 August 1952) and his wife Frances (née Frances Jane Pringle,1876 - 1958) established An Association to promote the Higher Education of Working Men in 1903 (renamed 'Workers Educational Association' in 1905), funded by two shillings and sixpence from the housekeeping money.

WEA UK

The WEA is divided into nine regions in England (each matching a Government Office region), a Scottish Association and over 500 local branches. It creates and delivers about 14,000 courses each year in response to local need across England and Scotland, often in partnership with community groups and local charities. These courses provide learning opportunities for around 85,000 people per year, taught by over 2,500 professional tutors (most of whom work for the WEA part-time). These figures make the WEA the largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in Britain.