It’s essential to vote for pro-public education candidates. Jahana Hayes, educator and congressional candidate That’s our job: To effect change, to improve outcomes. “If we can hold back that charge, we will set the precedent. “I see public education being dismantled here,” says 24-year-old teacher Noah Karvelis, an Arizona math teacher who helped lead the largest walkout of educators in history.
Nothing less than the future of public education is at stake. “We are fierce fighters who will stand up for ourselves and for our students and we will be heard!” declared NEA President Lily Eskelsen García at the NEA Representative Assembly this summer. They think all students, no matter where they live, deserve better. The movement involves NEA educators, students, parents, and community members who are fed up with tattered textbooks and leaky ceilings, who think 1,430 students are too many for one school counselor to help, who want their children to get five days of school-not four-per week, and who are horrified to hear of teachers selling their blood to pay their bills.
In several states, voters will decide on key school funding issues as state ballot measures - the good, the bad, and the ugly - will determine whether students get the funds they deserve or schools will remain stuck in permanent recession. Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Hawaii, Utah