In Arlington, Va., education support professionals are making sure immigrant students and their families have the information ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...

Nearly 80 million Americans—including 38 million children and 1 in 10 education support professionals—receive health care coverage through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Under a ...

Slashing support by up to $880 billion, as Republican budget numbers demand, would have a big impact—on health, education, and our economy. Medicaid helps pay for school-based services that benefit ...

Elementary school teacher Shayna Scott worked in New Jersey for 20 years, but she didn’t realize the power of the state’s collective bargaining rights—until she moved away. Her New Jersey local, the ...

In response to lawsuits filed by NEA and other organizations, last month three different courts blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict academic freedom and educational opportunity by ...

Join us for the Teach Truth Day of Action on June 7. Some politicians are trying to censor the lessons taught in our classrooms, ban books, and exclude certain kids based on what they look like or ...

Not only are these programs beneficial to students, but their teachers, parents, and communities as well. According to the ...

The national average public school teacher salary rose to $69,544 in 2022-23, a 4.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to the 2024 NEA Rankings and Estimates report. Adjusted for ...

Across the U.S., 32 states spent less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than in 2008, with an average decline of nearly $1,500 per student. As a result, students need to pay (and borrow) ...

Changes in starting salaries are representative of what is happening with teacher salaries across the board, and this decrease in inflation-adjusted pay could not have come at a worse time. Though ...

lower class sizes; give support to students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other disabilities; feed hungry students so they can learn; provide one-on-one tutoring; and make the cost of higher education and ...