keep schools clean and safe for students and staff prevent the spread of illness and infection maintain a comfortable, healthy environment for teaching and learning ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 6,000 delegates representing educators from every state and territory have chosen new national officers to lead NEA, the nation's largest labor union, during the union's 105th ...

Roughly 6,000 educators from around the nation gathered in Denver, Colo., on July 3-7, for the 2026 National Education Association Annual Meeting and 105th Representative Assembly (RA). The RA is the ...

Disability discrimination occurs when an applicant or employee is treated less favorably because of a disability. A person may be disabled if he or she has a physical or mental condition that ...

In the following sections, we will assess where we are today, 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education and 60 years after enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in terms of making progress ...

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 ...

Noel Candelaria, a special education teacher and former teacher’s aide from El Paso, Texas, is secretary-treasurer of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest professional organization ...

Parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends, neighborhood advocates: we all have a role to play in supporting student learning in the classroom and beyond.

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, ...

WASHINGTON—In an open letter sent today to the nation's Democratic governors, the presidents of the country’s two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American ...