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Voters Stand Firm Against School Vouchers—Again
Voters Stand Firm Against School Vouchers—Again
The message on election day was loud and clear: The public knows vouchers harm students and does not want them in any form.
Is This the End of the High-Stakes High School Graduation Exam?
Is This the End of the High-Stakes High School Graduation Exam?
Massachusetts educators and parents put the latest nail in the coffin of the high-stakes, standardized graduation test.
Revealing Campus Debt: How Colleges are Borrowing Away the Future
Revealing Campus Debt: How Colleges are Borrowing Away the Future
Campus debt is driving increases to student tuition, as well as faculty and staff cutbacks. A new book details how to organize against it—and for a better vision of public higher education.
Educator Rights to Create an Inclusive Classroom
Educator Rights to Create an Inclusive Classroom
Educators often use decorations to set the tone for their classrooms, school buses, lunchrooms, and other workspaces.
The Unsung Hero Behind Paid Family Leave
The Unsung Hero Behind Paid Family Leave
Fifty years ago, teacher Jo Carol LaFleur was the plaintiff in an historic Supreme Court case that struck down the common requirement that pregnant teachers leave their classrooms.
Helping Students Spot Misinformation Online
Helping Students Spot Misinformation Online
Navigating today's 'infodemic' of news and information requires media literacy, critical thinking, and a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5% and the number of grad-student employees in unions grew by 133%.
Let’s bring real change
“[Salary] is one of the things that hinders us in being able to attract and keep new faculty members. They say, ‘okay, New Mexico State is lovely. You’ve got great mountains. You’ve got great weather,’ but we can get paid $20,000 more at another institution with a lower teaching load.”
— Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza, professor of Spanish and linguistics
Read: The Union Boom in Higher Education
Strikes cause teacher pay to rise by 8%, or roughly $10,000 per teacher, five years post-strike.
Let’s bring real change
“It makes sense that these educators who choose to do something radically different—who choose these students—are the same people saying we can and have to use our power as unionized educators to make something different happen!...In the end, we’re doing this because we care about our communities. We care about our students and families. And we care about each other.”
— Angela Bonilla, president of Oregon’s Portland Association of Teachers
Learn more about the effects of teacher strikes
Attempts to censor books surged 65% in 2023, reaching the highest level ever tracked by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
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“There’s a lot of silent censorship happening, [librarians] saying they won’t buy something because it might violate [state] law. My school district has tried really hard to preserve students’ rights in the midst of this craziness, but others have erred on the side of caution and taken out way more than they should have. And their explanation is that ‘we don’t know.’”
— Mari Butler-Abry, High school librarian, Perry, Iowa
Resources to celebrate the freedom to read and fight book bans
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The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest
professional employee organization, is committed to advancing the cause of
public education. NEA's 3 million members work at every level of
education—from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has
affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities
across the United States.