At the recent NEA 2025 Representative Assembly, a recommendation was sent to the Executive Committee that NEA not partner with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). As the NEA does not currently have a ...

WASHINGTON — Among many items debated at NEA’s 2025 Representative Assembly, delegates voted to forward a recommendation to the NEA Executive Committee that the National Education Association (NEA) ...

When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...

Many school districts are still struggling with staff shortages and more educators are feeling burned out and demoralized. Higher pay always helps with teacher retention, but improving working ...

lower class sizes; give support to students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other disabilities; feed hungry students so they can learn; provide one-on-one tutoring; and make the cost of higher education and ...

The Trump Administration's Department of Education recently issued a “Dear Colleague” letter, which threatens federal funding cuts for education institutions for engaging in diversity, equity, and ...

According to new reports examining educator pay released this week by the National Education Association, the national average public school teacher salary in 2021-22 increased 2 percent from the ...

On election day, voters in Nebraska, Colorado, and Kentucky delivered a stunning rebuke to school vouchers. A diverse coalition of educators, parents, and community members in each state mobilized to ...

Project 2025 is a sweeping policy document for a second Trump administration. Among its recommendations? An end to the federal government’s student loan programs, including Parent Plus loans, ...

In 2022-23, more state legislatures adopted new or expanded school voucher laws than in any previous year. This expansion occurred despite overwhelming evidence showing voucher programs strip funds ...

Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5 percent. During that same time, the number of grad-student employees in unions grew even faster, by 133 percent. A key issue for ...