DACA has protected an estimated 20,000 educators or aspiring educators from deportation. The fate of the program now rests in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
3 things we learned from Election 2019
Public school advocates carried the #RedForEd spirit into the 2019 elections, and intend to do the same in 2020.
EdAction in Congress November 3, 2019
NEA-supported College Affordability Act headed for the floor The College Affordability Act (H.R. 4674), a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), cleared the House Education and Labor Committee in a 28-22 party-line vote last week. The next stop is the floor. NEA supports the bill and successfully advocated for expanding eligibility for Public…
The 2020 census matters for every student. Here’s why.
By Amanda Litvinov The importance of the U.S. Census to the well-being of children and the strength of their public schools cannot be overstated. Using census data, the federal government allocates tens of billions of dollars in education funds to states and localities annually using formulas that factor in population and poverty levels. An accurate…
EdAction in Congress October 27, 2019
Push for census funding for our students’ sake Funding for next year’s census is among the key issues still to be decided as Congress struggles to finalize spending bills for FY2020, which began Oct. 1. The census is vitally important to America’s students because it determines the allocation of billions of dollars in federal funding…