Schools Vouchers Making a Comeback

By Mary Ellen Flannery Despite resounding parent opposition to the idea of taking taxpayer money and using it to pay private-school tuitions, partisan lawmakers across the country — as well as in Congress – have returned this spring to one of their favorite pet topics: school vouchers. So far, faced with unified opposition from parents [...]

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 [...]

Educators Face Rising Homeless Student Population

By Mary Ellen Flannery April 5, 2010 — Tough economic times means increasing numbers of homeless children and students. You can’t practice the violin in a homeless shelter. Not really, not if you don’t want to wake the babies—and you don’t want to wake the babies. That’s something 14-year-old Chauncey learned last year during the [...]

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 [...]