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How Project 2025 Would Devastate Public Education
How Project 2025 Would Devastate Public Education
The 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency would gut federal education funding, sanction discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, divert taxpayer funds to private schools, and codify book bans and classroom censorship on a national level. That's just the beginning.
Take Cellphones Out of the Classroom, Educators Say
Take Cellphones Out of the Classroom, Educators Say
Across the country, a ‘teacher-led movement’ is demanding new cellphone policies to curb the constant distractions and disruptions to learning.
Teacher Strikes Lead to Higher Pay, Lower Class Sizes, More State Funds
Teacher Strikes Lead to Higher Pay, Lower Class Sizes, More State Funds
A first-of-its-kind study on teacher strikes shows they bring new money into districts, increasing student spending and all educator pay.
How Did Empathy Become the Enemy?
How Did Empathy Become the Enemy?
When extremists attack social and emotional learning, students pay the price.
Teachers Win “Banned Concepts” Lawsuit
Teachers Win “Banned Concepts” Lawsuit
A state law that limited what teachers could say around race, gender, sexuality and disabilities was ruled unconstitutional, thanks to a union-led lawsuit
Teaching in the Age of AI
Teaching in the Age of AI
NEA members' roadmap for safe, effective, and accessible use of artificial intelligence in education.
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Between 2012 and 2024, the number of unionized faculty grew by 7.5% and the number of grad-student employees in unions grew by 133%.
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“[Salary] is one of the things that hinders us in being able to attract and keep new faculty members. They say, ‘okay, New Mexico State is lovely. You’ve got great mountains. You’ve got great weather,’ but we can get paid $20,000 more at another institution with a lower teaching load.”
— Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza, professor of Spanish and linguistics
Read: The Union Boom in Higher Education
Strikes cause teacher pay to rise by 8%, or roughly $10,000 per teacher, five years post-strike.
Let’s bring real change
“It makes sense that these educators who choose to do something radically different—who choose these students—are the same people saying we can and have to use our power as unionized educators to make something different happen!...In the end, we’re doing this because we care about our communities. We care about our students and families. And we care about each other.”
— Angela Bonilla, president of Oregon’s Portland Association of Teachers
Learn more about the effects of teacher strikes
Attempts to censor books surged 65% in 2023, reaching the highest level ever tracked by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
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“There’s a lot of silent censorship happening, [librarians] saying they won’t buy something because it might violate [state] law. My school district has tried really hard to preserve students’ rights in the midst of this craziness, but others have erred on the side of caution and taken out way more than they should have. And their explanation is that ‘we don’t know.’”
— Mari Butler-Abry, High school librarian, Perry, Iowa
Resources to celebrate the freedom to read and fight book bans
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