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NEA Members Get It Done! House Passes $10 Billion Jobs Bill
By Miguel Gonzalez and Cynthia McCabe The House of Representatives voted tonight to approve funding that will save an estimated 138,000 educator jobs. NEA members called Congress today by the hundreds,...
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By Cynthia McCabe For President Obama to sign into law a bill passed by the U.S. Senate last week saving 161,000 educators’ jobs in time for the start of the school year, the U.S. House must finalize...
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House Delivers Final Victory for Students and Educators!
By Cynthia McCabe They did it. By the hundreds of thousands, NEA members, coalition partners, parents and governors called, emailed and lobbied Congress, demanding they do right by the nation’s...
View ArticlePoliticians Threaten Money Authorized to Rehire Educators
By Cynthia McCabe and Miguel Gonzalez Even though Congress flew back to Washington for an emergency vote and President Obama signed legislation speeding funds to states to stave off massive layoffs of...
View ArticleWisconsin Teacher Urges Congress: Stand Up for Education Funding
by Meredith Barnett This week, students at Ellsworth Community High School were lining up to ask Shelly Moore what classes they should take and what she’d be teaching next semester. Moore had to look...
View ArticleFederal Budget 2012: Battle Brewing Over Education
By Alain Jehlen President Barack Obama this week presented Congress with a lean budget that focuses scarce financial resources on education, so the next generation of Americans can succeed in the world...
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House of Representatives Slashes Education for Low-Income Kids
By Mary Ellen Flannery Almost 200,000 of this nation’s neediest children would lose their slots in Head Start programs, if U.S. Senators opt to approve a draconian federal budget passed by House...
View ArticleGOP Budget Slashes Education and Health Services
By Mary Ellen Flannery On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his much-anticipated 2012 budget proposal. Ryan calls his program The Path to Prosperity, which it probably...
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Painful Education Cuts in Budget Deal
By Tim Walker The 11th hour budget agreement reached last Friday between President Obama and Congressional leaders may have staved off a federal government shutdown, but who will be paying the price?...
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Budget Cuts Take Bigger Slice Out of School Supplies
By Cindy Long Education budget cuts take a big toll in the classroom – not only are there more students cramming into already crowded classes, there are fewer supplies to go around. Cuts have been so...
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What Texas Educators Want You to Know About Rick Perry
There’s a school district in Texas, so decimated by Gov. Rick Perry’s cut-to-the-bone-and-beyond state budget, that it recently decided to charge its students nearly $400 a year to ride the school bus....
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Children in Dire Poverty: What Educators Should Know
More than 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children, are living on $2 per day, per person, according to sociologists Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer, authors of $2.00 a Day:...
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Wisconsin Faculty Fighting the Destruction of Public Higher Education
A faculty vote of “no-confidence” is the nuclear option on campus— the “delete your account” of academia. It says publicly, loudly, and collectively that professors no longer believe their president or...
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