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Meet two educators who say they’ve noticed negative behaviors decreasing after bringing more seating options to students.
On June 30, the Department of Education announced via two emails that it is withholding $6.8 billion in funding previously slated for distribution starting July 1. The first email suspended $6.2 ...
When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...
Andy Markus, NEA's 2025 ESP of the Year, told delegates at NEA's Representative Assembly that when NEA fights, we win!
According to new NEA reports, despite record-level salary increases in some states, average teacher pay has failed to keep up with inflation.
See how much funding public schools in your congressional district get from the federal government and how the programs help students.
The root cause of educator exhaustion and frustration is a lack of support and respect, not a perceived inability to manage stress. To prevent a mass exodus from the profession, district and elected ...
Are salaries improving? Which states rank the highest? Is the teacher wage gap closing? In two new reports, NEA examines recent trends in educator pay.
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, school counselor, paraeducator, bus driver, cafeteria worker or school secretary, everyone who works in a public school faces a new school year ready to do the job ...
Since the enactment of universal school voucher programs, states are struggling with the programs’ cost and lack of transparency and accountability. Overwhelmingly, school vouchers are being used by ...
With mental health in the national spotlight, experts worry that the impact of compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress on educators is being left out of the conversation.
Some activists have tried to make social and emotional learning the latest target in the education "culture wars," but polls consistently show that parents overwhelming support SEL. Research shows ...