Update & Upgrade Our Schools

They released FY2022  Department of Education appropriations with historic increases for education that include doubling Title I funding, significantly more for IDEA, and $400 million (an increase of $370 million) for community schools.

She joined NEA members for an online conversation about the Build Back Better Act and what’s happening with higher education in Congress.

They introduced the bipartisan HELPER Act (H.R. 3172) to honor teachers, firefighters, EMTs, and other first responders by creating a federal home loan program similar to the popular VA home loan program available to our nation’s veterans.

They introduced the Latina Equal Pay Day Resolution to acknowledge the disparity in wages paid to Latinas and its larger impact on women, families, and the economy.