Politicians 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 educators, some school superintendents and governors are claiming they’ll hit the breaks on any rehiring. On their watch, class sizes could balloon, bus [...]

Educators Greet Jobs Funding With Relief, Optimism

By Kevin Hart One day after the House passed and President Barack Obama signed a $10 billion education jobs fund projected to save 161,000 public school jobs, educators across the Internet are reacting with a mixture of excitement and concern about when, or if, they will be recalled to work. Pamela Furtado-Hood, a kindergarten teacher [...]

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 [...]

Bipartisan Call Heard: The House is Coming Back

By Cynthia McCabe In the tweet heard ’round the education world, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday afternoon answered a bipartisan call from Senate leaders to bring her members back to Washington to save 161,000 educators’ jobs. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), following their monumental vote this [...]

Senate Clears Key Hurdle to Save Educator Jobs

By Cynthia McCabe and Sara Robertson This morning, the U.S. Senate voted to move forward on a bill that would save 138,000 educators’ jobs jeopardized by state budget cuts. By a vote of 61-38, senators voted for cloture, which allows debate on legislation containing $10 billion for education jobs funding to proceed. Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Laid-off Oklahoma Teacher to Congress: ‘Our Kids Need Your Help’

By Brian Washington Mitzi Ridinger, a teacher from Sallisaw, Okla., has joined the ranks of National Education Association members from Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina and California — who have all received pink slips — in urging their members of Congress to pass the Education Jobs Fund. Ridinger, a pre-K teacher at Greasy Elementary School located [...]

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