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NEA recognizes APALA for its work to advance workers’ rights
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance is awarded NEA’s Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award.
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NEA bestows upon the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association its highest honor
The National Education Association presented to the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association its highest honor, the Rosena J. Willis Memorial Award for its fearless commitment to make sure students thrive while enduring some of the most relentless political attacks in the country.
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NEA honors community activist Jitu Brown with human and civil rights award.
NEA awards the NEA Rosa Parks Memorial Award to social justice hero Jitu Brown as part of the 2018 NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards
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Michelle Obama and Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp were among 12 recipients of prestigious annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards
First Lady Michelle Obama and the Know Your Rights Campaign, founded by professional quarterback and racial and social justice advocate Colin Kaepernick, are among the dozen recipients of the prestigious National Education Association Human and Civil Rights Awards.
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UK student chosen to lead 60,000 Aspiring Educators
The Aspiring Educators of the National Education Association yesterday elected a new chair, Rachel Immerman, a student at the University of Kentucky, at their annual Student Leadership Conference, which takes place just prior to the NEA’s yearly Representative Assembly.
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America needs unions now more than ever as Supreme Court sides with corporate billionaires, rigging economy against workers
Members of NEA, AFSCME, SEIU and AFT team up to speak out against a SCOTUS decision that rules against working people and in favor of billionaires and corporate interests in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, citing First Amendment violation.
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NEA statement reacting to Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s travel ban
A Supreme Court ruling leaves in place Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning travelers and refugees from certain Muslim-majority countries. NEA President Lily Eskelsen García reacts, citing Trump’s inhumane and sad ban of Muslims.
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First lady Michelle Obama and Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Campaign are among 12 recipients of prestigious annual NEA award
The National Education Association will honor 12 individuals and organizations for continuing the quest for human and civil rights in America.
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NEA president reacts to radical Trump plans to merge federal agencies
While the American public reels from the humanitarian crisis that Donald Trump created along the U.S.-Mexico border, reports of a Trump administration plan to merge two critical federal agencies surface. NEA President calls it an ‘ill-conceived’ and ‘poorly timed’ distraction.
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NEA president: Republican leaders’ immigration bills are inhumane
As the world watches the horrific images of crying babies separated from their parents, House Republicans move forward - against the wishes of Americans and Congress - to eradicate the Dream Act. NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia reacts.
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