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Fighting Budget Cuts, North Carolina Educators Dig In For the Long Haul
Schools may still be out for the summer in North Carolina, but thousands of educators in the Tar Heel State have spent much of July and August rallying in opposition to devastating cuts to public...
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What Texas Educators Want You to Know About Rick Perry
There’s a school district in Texas, so decimated by Gov. Rick Perry’s cut-to-the-bone-and-beyond state budget, that it recently decided to charge its students nearly $400 a year to ride the school bus....
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What’s Her Number? Zip Codes Tell Us A Lot About Public School Quality
In the old saw about real estate, the three most important factors are location, location, location. The same is true of our nation’s public schools. A location that is desirable usually has good...
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Are Your Schools Underfunded? Then Organize!
On a cold Saturday morning, more than 100 educators, parents and students showed up to a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia, a big turnout for a meeting like this. Forty-three people...
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Corporate Reformers Say Money Doesn’t Matter in Public Schools. The Facts Say...
One of the most destructive myths propagated by so-called education “reformers” is that fully funding public education is merely throwing away more money. The arguments go something like this: Money...
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Stagnant NAEP Scores Indicate Need for More Education Resources
High school seniors’ performance in mathematics and reading has stagnated since 2009, according to the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as The Nation’s...
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What Recovery? Schools Still Reeling From Budget Cuts
In Virginia’s Prince William County, buses that once shuttled middle school students home from after-school activities have been parked. The reason? Lack of funding has shut students out from...
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The 5 Biggest Education Stories of 2014
Testing: Educators and Parents Push Back 2014 was supposed to be the year that every U.S. child would be proficient in reading and math. They are not. Instead, 2014 was the year that NEA and its...
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We Have to Fix School Funding Formulas, Experts Say, But Where’s the...
The U.S. economy has picked up steam recently and the fiscal outlook for individual states is improving. But what impact has this brighter outlook had on the widespread opportunity gaps that continue...
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States Turn Backs on Higher Ed, Leaving Feds and Families with Bill
Funding sources for U.S. public colleges and universities have turned topsy-turvy over the past decade as states have backed away from their investment in the public good and the federal government has...
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‘These Kids Are Just Pawns': The Rising Toll of Inequitable School Funding
This article is the first in a NEA Today series that explores obstacles to education that create an opportunity gap for disadvantaged students. With the number of children living in low-income families...
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TABOR Lives On: How the War on Public Education Becomes Irreversible
For almost 25 years, Colorado has held the distinction of being the only state in the country to enact the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights, better known simply as TABOR. And for many, if not most,...
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Commercialism in Schools: No Windfall For Districts and Students Pay a Huge...
Last month, educators, parents and community members mobilized against “McTeacher Night,” an event at which educators sit behind the counter at local McDonald’s franchises and serve up hamburgers,...
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Closing Schools: Privatization Disguised as ‘Accountability’
Closing public schools not only has a negative impact on student performance but also creates hardship for communities already struggling with disinvestment, according to Linda Darling-Hammond, who...
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Students Still Not Feeling the Economic Recovery
The fiscal outlook in most states has improved since the Great Recession, but the recovery – much like the U.S. economy as a whole – is far from complete. Nowhere is this more evident than in the...
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Four-Day School Weeks More Popular, But Impact on Students and Educators Unclear
Before Shana Myer’s school in Apache Junction Unified District, just east of Phoenix, Arizona, adopted a four-day school week this academic year, the third-grade teacher had to meet with her other team...
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Glass Not Even Half Full: Per-Pupil Spending in the U.S. Falls Again
Per-pupil spending in the United States declined for a third consecutive year in 2012-13, according to new data released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Although the drop slowed...
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Decaying School Infrastructure Putting Student Health At Risk
School facilities is second only to highways as the largest sector of public infrastructure spending, but it’s been more than 20 years since the federal government conducted a comprehensive review of...
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What’s the Purpose of Education? Public Doesn’t Agree on the Answer
Is the primary role of public education to provide rigorous academic instruction? Or is to promote good citizenship? How about creating a skilled, career-ready workforce? According to the 2016 PDK...
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