Press Releases

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s education plan is released. National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen applauds it, and issues a statement.

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.

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.

At NEA’s 2019 Representative Assembly, Christine Sampson-Clark, a special education teacher, was elected to the National Education Association Executive Committee

Speech given by Matthee Corey Powell after being named NEA’s Education Support Professional of the Year at 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.

At the 2019 NEA Representative Assembly in Houston, Texas, a Michigan professor is awarded NEA’s Higher Educator of the Year.

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.

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.

National Education Association’s President Lily Eskelsen Garcia’s speech at NEA’s 1029 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly