Called the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), these rules have robbed firefighters, ...

Despite these difficulties, the rewards of helping kids are huge. Winters has worked at Hamilton Elementary School, in Port ...

Becky Pringle is president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union. Becky is a middle school science teacher with more than three decades of classroom experience and ...

Enter your information and you'll receive a call to be connected to your senators' offices. More than 2.8 million hard-working Americans, including many educators, have their Social Security benefits ...

Loudoun County school employees join a growing chorus of voices in Virginia voting to collectively bargaining on behalf of ...

On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve, we would like to submit the following comments in connection with today’s hearing, “How Mass Deportations Will Separate ...

According to the RAND Corporation's 2024 State of the American Teacher survey, two-thirds of teachers report receiving a pay increase between the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 school years. The average pay ...

Despite being an important part of the education team, too often ESPs don’t receive professional learning that contributes to their success with students, at their worksites, and in their careers. In ...

Education Support Professionals (ESPs) are critical to the success of our nation’s public schools. They are the bus drivers who get our students to school safely, the custodians who keep our school ...

Shay, I don’t mess with the NJEA because they don’t stick up for Black and brown people!” “But Sekou, you should come with me to a members of color meeting that NJEA is putting together.” This was the ...

My high school world history students are burdened with a rather Eurocentric textbook. The lackluster tome devotes more than 80 pages to the French Revolution and two pages to the Haitian Revolution.