Race to the Top Wins Send Mixed Signals

By Cynthia McCabe March 31, 2010 — When the Obama Administration this week awarded $600 million in Race to the Top grants to Delaware and Tennessee it sent a strong signal about the power of collaboration with educators for school districts hoping to achieve real education reform. But even as the Administration was indicating it [...]

New Generation Joins Forest Fight in Burkina Faso

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Obama Finalizes Health Care Reform Law

by Tim Walker March 30, 2010 – President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a package of changes to the landmark overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system he approved last week. The legislation signed today also contains sweeping reforms to the student loan industry. “This week we can rightly say the foundation on which [...]

NEA to Congress: Less Standardized Testing, More Help

By Alain Jehlen Less standardized testing, more help for struggling schools—These are the key ingredients of NEA’s 170-page recipe for improving the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which was delivered Friday to Congress. ESEA is the biggest source of federal funds for public schools and includes the Title I program for disadvantaged students. The [...]

Union-Business Partnership Creating Opportunities for Students in NY

By Kevin Hart It’s a question that has loomed large over every statewide election, every legislative session, and millions of kitchen tables from Albany to Buffalo over the past quarter century – what to do about the Upstate New York economy? The area, loosely defined as the region of New York north of the New [...]

Higher Ed Members Push Ahead in Unpredictable Times

By John Rosales March 26, 2010 — “Advancing Higher Education in Unpredictable Times” is the theme for NEA’s 28th Annual Higher Education Conference, kicking off today in San Jose, Calif. More than 700 higher education members, national officers, and others are expected to attend the conference, being held jointly with the American Federation of Teachers. Organizers [...]

NEA President: Mass Teacher Firings Not the Answer

By Cynthia McCabe and Ramona Parks-Kirby March 26, 2010 — Deploying the most drastic and punitive reform option to turn around low-performing schools, school districts are firing entire staffs, first in Central Falls, R.I., High Point, N.C., and now in Savannah, Ga. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel on Friday called this disturbing trend short-sighted and said [...]

No Breakthroughs at Health Care Summit

By Tim Walker President Obama hosted a bipartisan health care summit today to loosen the logjam in Congress that has held up passage of comprehensive health care reform. For more than seven hours, the president, members of his cabinet, and about 40 members of the House and Senate sparred over costs containment, insurance reforms, deficit [...]

New NAEP Reading Scores Flat

By Alain Jehlen New fourth and eighth grade reading scores released Wednesday show essentially no progress since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2002. The scores are from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only achievement test program that attempts to measure the academic skills of students throughout [...]

Show Us Your Signs! Educators Protest Budget Cuts

March 25, 2010 — Around the country educators, parents, students and other supporters of public education are standing up and saying “no!” to budget cuts that threaten schools. From New York to California, NEA’s state affiliates have organized rallies to send a message to lawmakers: Don’t cut public education or communities suffer. At each of [...]

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