Wisconsin 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 her students in the eye and tell them she wouldn’t be teaching anything. As of June, this 13-year veteran teacher won’t have [...]

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 [...]

Education Jobs Fund Passes Key Hurdle in House

By  Cynthia McCabe From Wisconsin to Washington, political leaders this week called on the U.S. House and Senate to act now and authorize funding that will save hundreds of thousands of educators jobs. Failure to do so, President Obama and governors from across the country said, would be to risk the fragile economic recovery they’re [...]

NEA Student Program Members Elect New President

Nearly 100 student delegates to NEA’s Representative Assembly in New Orleans on Monday elected their new board of directors. Pictured left to right: Chair, Tommie Leaders (Nebraska), Katie Kreis (Illinois), Ashley Rogers (Virginia), and Brandan Trahan (Louisiana). Jermaine Coleman, outgoing chair of the NEA Student Program, is pictured at left with Leaders, an elementary education major at the [...]

Governors Join Fight for More Education Funding

By Brian Washington Governors are applying pressure to Congress and the White House to approve federal funding to prevent students from shouldering the impact of hundreds of thousands of education-related layoffs. So far, governors from Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Oregon have all written letters to their congressional delegations, leadership in the U.S. House [...]

When Support Professionals Are Laid Off: Their Story

By Mary Ellen Flannery When the cyclone of state funding cuts set down in Illinois’ Southwestern school district this year, it left a wide wake of devastation: More than one out of three education support professionals were laid off, including every single classroom aide. Terry Hines, president of the Southwestern ESP association and an aide [...]

College Students Hit Hard by Job Cuts

By John Rosales Students are being turned away from higher education institutions in great numbers due to faculty layoffs. They are also unable to register for classes they need to graduate, and are not receiving basic campus services due to job losses to everyone from tenure-track professors and adjuncts to counselors, library and health care [...]

Education Support Professionals’ Jobs at Risk

By Amy Buffenbarger Headlines in papers across the country bear the bad news about education budgets being slashed and teachers getting laid off. One of the largest papers, The New York Times, recently editorialized how fewer paychecks in a community affect more than just the laid-off teachers. Article after article shares stories of teachers who [...]

Teachers Face Personal Economic Collapse

By Cynthia McCabe Time is running out for Sherry Driscoll, a special education teacher in Winchester, Mass., who learned last month that she will be laid off at the end of this school year. She has three children and is the sole breadwinner for her family. They live in a rental house and that monthly [...]

Courts Deliver Key Victories for Public Education

By Tim Walker As critical funding for schools gets squeezed out of budgets across the country, public education advocates have taken their state governments to court for violating their constitutional obligation to provide a basic quality education for students.In a key victory for Connecticut schools last month, the state Supreme Court overturned an earlier lower [...]

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