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, […]

View as Webpage Congress is preparing to pass a short-term spending patch to fund the government after Sept. 30 (FY2023 begins Oct. 1) and then is likely to recess until after the November elections. Senate action on the Respect for Marriage Act appeared imminent, but has been postponed—again—until after the elections. The bill’s champions are optimistic […]