View as Webpage Elizabeth, Public education was a winner up and down the ballot in mid-term elections in which Democrats held the Senate and Republicans captured the House. Margins will remain historically narrow in both chambers.  In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), and Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC) are stepping aside for a […]

View as Webpage The White House endorsed universal access to healthy, free school meals, NEA’s top priority for child nutrition, as part of its Sept. 28 conference on hunger, nutrition, and health. It was the first event of its kind at the White House in more than half a century.  NEA has long maintained that […]

The NEA Board of Directors came to Washington last week and went to Capitol Hill to lobby on these issues:  Education funding—Annual appropriations for education programs are $7 billion less than a decade ago (adjusted for inflation). We are urging Congress to make the largest possible increases in education funding—particularly Title I, IDEA, community schools, […]