Jill Biden encouraged Florida community college students to vote during a virtual visit to an NEA member’s classroom, one stop on her back-to-school tour.
By Amanda Menas COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on a specific aspect of the digital divide known as the homework gap—the inability to do schoolwork at home due to lack of high-speed internet access. Nationwide, 15-16 million students are affected—roughly 1 in 3. A disproportionate share of those students are African-American or Hispanic, come from…
By Amanda Menas Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden has made public education a top priority. This continued during the Democratic National Convention this week, where Biden appeared with wife Dr. Jill Biden by his side, an educator and long-time NEA member herself. Throughout the virtual convention, NEA members from Arizona and…
By Amanda Menas / photo: ImageSPACE/MediaPunch/IPx On August 11, Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) to be his Vice Presidential running mate. Biden promised to nominate a woman vice president during the final Democratic presidential debate in March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic came into full view across the country. Biden’s historic selection of…
By Amanda Litvinov Election 2020 is just around the corner. If you’re determined to help NEA fire Betsy DeVos by electing pro-public education champion Joe Biden, here’s the one thing you should do right now: Download the OutreachCircle app and use it to help everyone in your networks get ready to vote. Research shows that…