Tell Congress: America's economy needs a $100 billion jump-start
More than half the states will soon be in the red. Unlike the federal government, states must balance their budgets. Due to today's deteriorating economic conditions:
- Hundreds of thousands of teachers and other public employees are facing layoffs - 20,000 educators in California alone.
- States are contemplating cuts in education programs of all kinds - everything from Head Start to K-12 to higher education.
- New Medicaid and SCHIP regulations will leave low-income children and children with disabilities without health care and further strain state budgets.
Tell your representatives the economy needs a jump start.
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Tell Congress a second economic stimulus package is needed to preserve education, health care, and other essential state services.
Tell Congress: the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" is NOT needed
A conference committee is crafting a final reauthorization bill for the Higher Education Act. The Senate bill includes an "Academic Bill of Rights," which NEA strongly opposes. The House bill does not include this provision.
Like the wolf clad in sheep's clothing, the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" is NOT what it claims to be. Under the guise of protecting students from purported faculty bias, it would encourage ideologically-driven intervention in course content and teaching.
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Tell your representatives NOT to support the "Academic Bill of Rights."
Tell Congress: Pass the Education for All Act (H.R. 2092, S. 1259).
In 2000, the United States and 180 other nations resolved to work together to achieve universal basic education by 2015. The Education for All Act would:
- Make universal basic education a focus of U.S. foreign policy.
- Provide $10 billion over five years to help poor nations create and execute plans to educate all of their children.
- Help carry out a key recommendation of the 9-11 Commission.
Urge your representatives to cosponsor the Education for All Act
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Tell your representatives to fulfill the U.S. commitment to basic universal education and cosponsor the Education for All Act.
