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Alabama State University Professor Honored as 2020 Higher Educator of the Year
At the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly an Alabama professor is awarded NEA’s Higher Educator of the Year.
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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Kim A. Anderson, Executive Director, National Education Association, to the 99th Representative Assembly
National Education Association’s Executive Director Kim A. Anderson’s speech at NEA’s 99th Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly
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NEA slams Trump-Devos pursuit of school vouchers in COVID relief package
Citing the Civil Rights Act anniversary, NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia reacts to President Trump's announcement that he will pursue a $5 billion voucher program in the next COVID-19 relief package.
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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Lily Eskelsen García, President, National Education Association, to the 99th Representative Assembly
National Education Association’s President Lily Eskelsen Garcia’s speech at NEA’s 99th Representative Assembly.
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NEA applauds House passage of Moving Forward Act, calls on Senate to act
NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia reacts to the passage of the Moving Forward Act which will help America’s public schools weather the pandemic and bridge the digital divide.
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NEA welcomes Coronavirus Child Care and Education Relief Act
The National Education Association welcomes the Coronavirus Child Care and Education Relief Act and blasts the cavalier approach of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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NEA honors everyday heroes who fight for racial and social justice
National Education Association’s most prestigious NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards will be presented to 11 extraordinary everyday heroes at its Human and Civil Rights Awards ceremony.
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Conservative Supreme Court opens the door for DeVos’s voucher schemes
The Supreme Court of the United States’s decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue decision will allow taxpayer funding of private religious schools. NEA files amicus brief and its President Lily Eskelsen Garcia reacts.
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NEA to host virtual Representative Assembly July 2-3
The National Education Association, America’s largest labor union, will conduct a remote Representative Assembly featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, Greta Thunberg, other leading voices for public education.
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DeVos's latest rule change under CARES Act money ‘is as clear as mud’
Betsy DeVos issued a rule that tampers with the (CARES) Act, despite it being agreed upon by both Democrats and Republicans. NEA President Lily Eskelsen reacts, citing that it “diverts emergency education funding away from public schools and students in need and gives it to unaccountable private schools”.
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