As the federal government shutdown continues, Congress must urge the Trump administration to fund the program that helps ...

Immigration and the demonizing of immigrants was central to President Trump’s 2024 election campaign and since his re-election, he and his staff have consistently signaled an intent to engage not only ...

Annual reports from NEA examine educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college show that salaries continue to lag woefully behind inflation over the past decade. Low pay limits the ability ...

The Executive Office houses the three elected officers (president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer), executive director, and staff who provide support and coordination for NEA-wide concerns.

Kim Pinckney is worried for her son. The New Jersey mom has been watching as the Trump administration has used the federal ...

According to a recent NEA member survey, a staggering 55 percent of educators say they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than planned. While fallout from the pandemic could be the ...

Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5 percent. During that same time, the number of grad-student employees in unions grew even faster, by 133 percent. A key issue for ...

Soon after ChatGPT launched in November 2022, some large school districts, concerned about student cheating, immediately blocked access. ChatGPT-generated work has left many teachers spending more ...

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 ...

About one-third of teachers nationally teach in one of the 18 states that have passed laws restricting instruction around so-called "divisive concepts," such as race, gender identity, and sexual ...

Well over 90 percent of teachers spend their own money on school supplies and other items their students need to succeed. Just before the pandemic, educators on average spent around $500 of their own ...

The teacher pay penalty is the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that gap has more than ...