Last Friday, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a field hearing on GPO/WEP repeal—the latest in a series of congressional hearings that have helped build record support for that goal. The Social Security Fairness Act (S. 597/H.R. 82), which would fully repeal GPO and WEP, now has 57 cosponsors in the Senate and 322 in […]

  We scored several victories during last week’s markup of the FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill governs Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools, here and overseas, where educators are represented by the Federal Education Association (FEA), an NEA affiliate. As NEA and FEA urged, the bill extends the current maximums for student-to-teacher ratios, […]

  President Biden is preparing to sign into law the NEA-supported Maternal and Child Health Stillborn Prevention Act, which passed the House by a vote of 408-3 last week and the Senate by unanimous consent in September. More than 23,000 U.S. pregnancies end in stillbirth every year—10 times the number who succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), […]