A World Without Student Debt Creating a Future Without Limits
From pre-K to Ph.D., our right to learn, grow, and thrive should be based on how big we dream and how hard we work. However, for too long, the student debt system has been designed to profit off the backs of students and educators.
Generations of barriers also have denied Black, brown, and Indigenous communities a fair shot at resources that would make the college dream a reality. We can make sure students don’t have to choose between basic living expenses or their education, and that families who do attend college are not forever weighed down by a lifetime of crushing student debt.
From national advocacy to individual support, NEA is working to ensure that education is affordable and accessible to all.
Create Your Own Future Without Student Debt
NEA has partnered with Savi, a student loan start up, to offer an online student debt navigator tool, free for one year for NEA members.
Sign up to receive personalized advice from student debt experts and gain access to Savi’s e-filing function, which helps eliminate the common mistakes that bar many applicants from receiving forgiveness.
No segment of educators is immune from the burden of student loan debt—not young educators, not older and more experienced educators, and certainly not educators of color.
With this crisis, however, comes the opportunity for transformation.
We've already made progress. Thousands of educators from across the country have took action to demand that the U.S. Department of Education fix the broken Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. We have been heard: The US Department of Education has announced they are overhauling the PSLF program.
Hundreds of thousands of public service workers will now get the student debt relief they deserve. But we won't stop until EVERYONE is able to learn and grow without a lifelong burden of student debt.
