Bill Farmer is a high school science teacher from Evanston, Illinois, with over two decades of classroom experience. He was elected to the NEA Executive Committee in 2025 for a three-year term. Bill ...

Future teachers are tackling issues that affect the profession before they enter the classroom. Members of NEA's Aspiring Educators program are organizing their campuses and in their states to improve ...

Shuffling critical special education services from agency to agency will be costly, chaotic, and put students with disabilities at risk. Moving services out of the Education Department without ...

Educators in Montgomery County, Maryland turned individual concerns about mold into a collective effort that pushed the school district to investigate and act. By organizing through their union, ...

In Florida, it can be scary. In most other states, sociology classrooms are a place where critical conversations about ...

WASHINGTON — The National Education Association (NEA) is joining students, families, and communities nationwide to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4–8, 2026. This year, NEA is turning ...

According to the latest NEA data, teacher salaries continue to increase, but they have not kept pace with inflation over the past decade, leaving many educators financially worse off. As educator ...

WASHINGTON—The White House today unveiled an outline of the Trump administration’s 2027 budget proposal, calling for $73 billion in cuts to domestic spending, jeopardizing critical investments in ...

On March 4, the one-year anniversary of McMahon’s confirmation by the U.S. Senate, a group of education leaders, activists, government employees, and students, braved the rain to gather outside the ...

According to scientific research, the effects of sleep deprivation in teenagers are severe, and starting school later would be a big step forward in reversing this trend. In 2019, California became ...

Recent gains in teacher pay have helped many districts address teacher retention. But salaries need to improve more to help attract new educators. Major salary increases in Charleston, South Carolina ...