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Keep our Educators Working!
Tags: Education Funding, Keep Our Educators Working Act, Layoffs, Lily Eskelsen, nea
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed the ‘Keep our Educators Working Act of 2010‘ bill that would provide $23 billion to extend the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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How are educators reacting to this bill?
Listen to NEA Vice-President Lily Eskelsen as she explains: Click here
To urge congress to support this critical legislation, click here.
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Posted May 11th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I was a California educator working with migrant, Title I/Title III students. Most of my students achieved two years academic growth in reading and math and I got a pink slip. Is this how we want to proceed with public education?
Posted May 3rd, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Please help save teachers’ jobs now. Our district, Nye County, in Nevada is 6.5 million in the red for the next fiscal year. They will need to lay off more teachers if this budget shortfall isn’t fixed.
Please help us!
Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Carol, so many of us go to sleep at night and wake up every morning worrying whether we’ll have a job in the fall. And if I’m one of the lucky ones who still has a job, I wonder how many more students will be added to my class, how many of my friends and colleagues will be gone, and what other cutbacks in materials and programs there’ll be.
I’ve been a teacher for 12 years, and I have never experienced such day-to-day stress. But I’m not helpless and neither are we.
At this very moment there is a bill pending in Congress that could save hundreds of thousands of education jobs.
As I understand it, the bill has some momentum, but it can’t get across the finish line unless each and every one of us contacts our Senators to support the bill.
We can’t afford to wait another minute. Read the story above (Keep our Educators Working) and take action. Tell others to do the same. It’s quick and easy. I sent a message to my Senators in less than five minutes.
Individually, we are limited in what we can do. Together, though, with our colleagues, families, friends and others who care about children and public schools, we can make a change for the better.
Posted May 7th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Thanks for creating this site! It connects me to what’s going on in other schools, cities and towns like mine, and it gives me a way to take action — not just for myself, but for my family, my students and other teachers. We cannot be satisfied with what we see going on around the country. We must insist upon change! Let’s start by getting our US senators to pass the educators jobs bill. And if you haven’t already, tell your friends about this site. Spread the word — there’s strength in numbers and knowledge.