Congress is considering cuts to Medicaid that threaten the healthcare that tens of millions of families rely on—all in the name of tax cuts for the wealthy.

All students—Black, white and brown —deserve a high-quality education in safe and welcoming public schools. Educators originally supported charter schools as a place to experiment with educational ...

NEA’s Rankings and Estimates report provides a wide array of public K-12 education statistics and includes the average teacher salary by state and nationally. Even with record-level increases in some ...

NEA and its affiliates advocate for improved salaries for all educators—K-12 teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, and specialized instructional support personnel—to ...

According to Pen America, there were more than 10,000 instances of books bans in the 2023-24 academic year—the highest number recorded yet. Calling them a ”hoax,” the U.S. Education Department under ...

“Educators should teach Black History because it is American history. To understand history truthfully and accurately, it ...

For her innovative, student-focused approach as an educator, plus her warmth and fierce advocacy as a union leader, Florida’s ...

On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve, we urge you to VOTE NO on H. Con. Res. 14, the ...

Since it does not list specific funding requests for every federal program, the 46-page document is a “skinny” budget.

School nurses are often the first to identify students with mental health struggles. Too often, school medical personnel are not included on teams that address student mental health. NEA and the ...

Annual reports from NEA examine educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college show that salaries continue to lag woefully behind inflation over the past decade. Low pay limits the ability ...

According to the National Education Association's annual report on teacher salaries, educators are seeing long-overdue pay increases. The average starting teacher salary in 2023-24 was $46,526, ...