Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling upon their colleagues in the U.S. Senate to approve legislation to prevent hundreds of thousands of layoffs that will negatively impact students nationwide.
More than 1,700 educators joined NEA President Dennis Van Roekel for a tele-town hall meeting, launching a more aggressive grassroots effort to lobby for fair and adequate education funding.
When people were attacking her and her fellow dedicated public school teachers, Florida fourth-grade teacher Jamee Miller got mad. And then she got to typing.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s decision to veto Senate Bill 6—which threatened to make the Sunshine State one of the most unfriendly places in the country for public school teachers—comes on the heels of a letter from a strong Congressional advocate for public education in Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Ron Klein (CD-22).
With a stroke of his pen, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist took a bold stand today for the state’s students, educators and schools. The Republican governor, defying his own party, vetoed the controversial Senate Bill 6, which education experts say would have made Florida one of the most teacher-hostile states in the country, while also leaving counties with a massive, unfunded mandate.