View as Webpage Our thoughts are with the students, members, and families affected by the shootings in Lewiston, Maine.  Last Wednesday, NEA President Becky Pringle met with the House Democratic Caucus and surveyed the national landscape for public education—attacks on the institution, educators, and certain student populations, as well as the hard work of educators to teach, […]

View as Webpage Republicans tried again last week—and failed—to elect a Speaker of the House. Multiple floor votes left the party’s latest nominee, Jim Jordan (R-OH), woefully short of the necessary 217 votes with opposition growing and the entire scene turning uglier by the hour. Some GOP members opposed to Jordan have faced death threats […]

View as Webpage For the second week in a row, the United States House of Representatives has no speaker–and no progress toward funding the government beyond mid-November, providing new aid to allies at war in Europe and the Middle East, or anything else. House Republicans headed into the weekend after a fruitless, embarrassing effort to […]