Press Releases

Speech given by Andrea Beeman after being named NEA’s Education Support Professional of the Year at the 99th Representative Assembly.

At the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly an Alabama professor is awarded NEA’s Higher Educator of the Year.

National Education Association’s Executive Director Kim A. Anderson’s speech at NEA’s 99th Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly

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.

National Education Association’s President Lily Eskelsen Garcia’s speech at NEA’s 99th Representative Assembly.

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.

The National Education Association welcomes the Coronavirus Child Care and Education Relief Act and blasts the cavalier approach of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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.

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.

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.