Let’s call them the secrets of special educators. They’re the skills, practices, things that special education teachers and paraeducators do all the time to reduce disruption and increase learning.

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 ...

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 ...

Join NEA President Becky Pringle as she shares her vision for the 2026 NEA Representative Assembly (RA) and previews the events and daily agenda for the Annual Meeting and RA. Information on how to ...

Twenty-seven states now have laws mandating or encouraging cursive instruction in public schools—up from only 14 a decade ago. Proponents believe cursive is an important life skill that has ...

Voucher expansion is re-segregating schools by race and income and reflects a policy rooted in resistance to school integration. Programs framed as equity tools often become subsidies for families ...

Educators on average spend anywhere in between $500 and $900 of their own money on school supplies. According to a new report, school supply shopping this year will be 7.3 percent more expensive ...

The Trump administration is withholding almost $6.9 billion in federal K–12 education funding, normally released to states on July 1, from students and classrooms, according to the U.S. Department of ...

When the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted, Congress committed to fund 40 percent of the average per pupil cost for special education. A half-century later, students who ...

Despite overwhelming evidence that they drain funds from public schools, harm student achievement, and lack any oversight or accountability, universal voucher laws are proliferating. Marketed as a way ...

NEA Higher Ed members are sitting on mountains of data that they assembled through federally funded research but are now cut off before sharing the findings that U.S. taxpayers paid for. Their topics ...