DREAM Act Supporters Make Their Case to the US Senate

By Mary Ellen Flannery “I am an American in my heart,” Michigan student Ola Kaso told Senators on Tuesday in the first-ever hearing on the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a much-needed pathway to citizenship for some undocumented students who attend college or serve in the military. The hearing, available on webcast and [...]

Students Hope to See the DREAM Kept Alive

By Mary Ellen Flannery Oregon teacher Roger Berger has a student that members of Congress should meet. She recently graduated at the top of her class, the winner of a prestigious science award with plans to study pre-med at Stanford University. “She was the most positive student I’ve ever seen — good person, good grades, everything [...]

Eskelsen to Congress: It’s Time to DREAM

By Mary Ellen Flannery There is new hope for Eric Balderas — and the hundreds of thousands of other undocumented students in the United States who would like to attend college or join the military, and grow up into productive, tax-paying residents of this country. Balderas, a biology student on full scholarship to Harvard University [...]

Senate Votes to Save 161,000 Educators’ Jobs

By Cynthia McCabe, Miguel Gonzalez and Collin Berglund The U.S. Senate today approved much-needed funding that will save an estimated 161,000 educator jobs nationwide. By the hundreds of thousands, NEA members spent the past five months contacting Congress, tallying nearly 400,000 calls and emails in the days leading up to the crucial vote. Joining them [...]

Senate Hearing From Thousands of Public Ed Supporters

By Cynthia McCabe After months of build-up, it’s finally here. The Senate is scheduled to vote today on education jobs funding and thousands of public education supporters nationwide are jamming U.S. Senate phone lines and email systems to demand that legislators save 135,000 educator jobs. Roughly $10 billion in funding for those jobs is included in H.R. [...]

U.S. House Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill

by Tim Walker March 22, 2010 — On Sunday night, the House of Representatives passed landmark legislation that will overhaul the nation’s health care system. In the same bill, the House also approved essential education legislation that will make college more affordable and assist community colleges in meeting the education and training needs of job [...]