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 students and save 161,000 educators’ jobs threatened by budget cuts. Congress listened and the U.S. House today authorized $10 billion in emergency funds for the Education [...]

U.S. House Has Opportunity to Save Jobs Today. Will It?

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 that vote with its own. Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week called the House back to Washington to take [...]

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. [...]

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, adding to more than 60,000 calls made in the weeks leading up to tonight’s crucial vote. The measure passed shortly before 10:30 p.m. by [...]

A Snapshot of Those Telling Congress: ‘Save Education Jobs!’

By Alain Jehlen Educators, parents, and plenty of other public education supporters flooded the U.S. Capitol switchboards yesterday with more than 15,000 calls to their Senators and Representatives, urging, begging, and demanding that they prevent the layoffs of as many as 300,000 educators this year by supporting the Education Jobs Fund now moving through Congress. If passed,$23 [...]

‘I Will Be Watching Every Vote’

More than 300,000 educators around the country face layoffs. Unless the U.S. House and Senate act now, their jobs will disappear and millions of children’s lives will be affected. Here’s the story of just one laid off teacher, a single mother of two from Durham, N.C., named Gina Moretto Frutig. Here’s a timeline from my most recent payday: April [...]

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 [...]