View as Webpage NEA digital activists sent three quarters of a million emails to Congress in 2023. Wow! From an advocacy standpoint, the top issues were education funding, GPO and WEP, and educator pay. You’ve been relentless in reaching out to members of Congress—and it has produced important victories. Thank you for helping NEA make a […]

View as Webpage At this time of year, it is traditional to celebrate victories and anticipate looming challenges. Let’s start with victories. A Pew Research Center analysis, released last week, documents President Biden’s success in creating a federal bench that looks more like America. Nearly two-thirds of the federal judges appointed by President Biden are women, and […]

View as Webpage The push to repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) gained momentum at a Nov. 20 field hearing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, convened by the House Ways and Means Committee. Witnesses who testified at the hearing—the first in many years—included octogenarian Paula Porter, a teacher for 38 years whose husband […]