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Tone deaf DeVos disrespects educators
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited South Carolina on a voucher-promoting tour. NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia responds with shock in a statement.
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California educator elected to NEA Executive Committee
At NEA’s 2019 Representative Assembly in Houston, TX, a special education teacher in California’s San Bernardino City Unified School District was re-elected to NEA’s Executive Committee.
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New Jersey educator elected to NEA Executive Committee
At NEA’s 2019 Representative Assembly, Christine Sampson-Clark, a special education teacher, was elected to the National Education Association Executive Committee
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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Matthew Cory Powell, 2019 NEA Education Support Professional, to the 98th NEA Representative Assembly
Speech given by Matthee Corey Powell after being named NEA’s Education Support Professional of the Year at the 98th Representative Assembly.
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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Rodney Robinson, 2019 National Teacher of the Year, to the 98th Representative Assembly
Speech given by Rodney Robinson at the 98th Representative Assembly after he is named NEA’s National Teacher of the Year 2018.
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Saginaw Valley State University Professor Honored as 2019 Higher Educator of the Year
At the 2019 NEA Representative Assembly in Houston, Texas, a Michigan professor is awarded NEA’s Higher Educator of the Year.
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Educators emerge energized from #StrongPublicSchools presidential forum
President Lily Eskelsen Garcìa hosted the #StrongPublicSchools presidential forum before nearly 10,000 NEA members and guests in Houston, energizing educators who are poised to play a powerful role in the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Pennsylvania’s Dolores McCracken Awarded with National Education Association’s Highest Honor
The former president of the Pennsylvania Education Association (PSEA) was posthumously awarded NEA’s highest honor: NEA Friend of Education Award. Her two adult children accepted the award at the 2019 NEA Representative Assembly.
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Remarks by NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcìa as prepared for delivery at the National Education Association Representative Assembly and Annual Meeting taking place July 4 – 7 in Houston, Texas.
National Education Association’s President Lily Eskelsen Garcia’s speech at NEA’s 1029 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly
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Educators recognize 12 human and civil rights champions at annual ceremony
The National Education Association honored 12 advocates of human and civil rights in America with its highest recognition, the NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards. The honorees include a 1964 Freedom Summer participant and a surviving member the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike.
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