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		<title>Updated: Contact Your Senators to Save Educator Jobs!</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/28/urgent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call 1-866-608-6355 to contact your Senators!
Click here to email your Senators
Update: It now appears that the education jobs fund will be attached to another bill that will be voted on in the Senate on Monday.  Check back for updated news and how you can help.
Call 1-866-608-6355 to contact your Senators!
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		<title>NEA Urges Senate to Make Children a Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEA state affiliate presidents travel to Capitol Hill for the education jobs fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Your Voice at Netroots Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/24/your-voice-at-netroots-nation-ask-harry-reid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Reid at Netroots Nation. What is the Senate doing about the education bill?]]></description>
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		<title>Education Votes Visits Netroots Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For the times they are a changing.” That line from a popular Bob Dylan song from the ’60s rings especially true today in the ever-expanding and influential universe known as the blogosphere.]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: 185 Group Coalition to Senate: Pass an Education Jobs Fund</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/15/92-group-coalition-to-senate-pass-an-education-jobs-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The undersigned organizations representing the broad range of stakeholders in the education community applaud the U.S. House of Representatives for including in the supplemental appropriations bill a $10 billion Education Jobs Fund to stave off massive educator layoffs and $4.95 billion to address the Pell Grant funding shortfall that threatens to cut grants to eight million college students.  We urge the Senate to follow suit, by crafting a bill that can pass the Senate, address these two pending crises and be signed into law as quickly as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Share Your Story on Your Senators&#8217; Facebook Pages</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/13/senatorsfacebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate is currently considering education jobs funding that could help save 138,000 educator jobs nationwide. We need you to encourage your Senators to support this important legislation by sharing your personal stories on how layoffs and other funding cuts are affecting you, your local schools, and your community.]]></description>
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		<title>Ravitch Blasts So-Called &#8216;Reforms&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/08/ravitch-blasts-so-called-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/08/ravitch-blasts-so-called-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEA Friend of Education award winner Diane Ravitch electrified the Representative Assembly Tuesday with an impassioned call for the defense of public education and the teaching profession.]]></description>
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		<title>YOU DID IT! House Passes $10 Billion for Education Jobs!</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/01/urgent-call-congress-now-to-save-educator-jobs-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/01/urgent-call-congress-now-to-save-educator-jobs-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives voted late Thursday night for legislation bringing $10 billion to stave off educator and support professional layoffs]]></description>
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		<title>Laid-off Oklahoma teacher to Congress: ‘Our kids need your help’</title>
		<link>http://www.educationvotes.nea.org/2010/07/01/laid-off-oklahoma-teacher-to-congress-%e2%80%98our-kids-need-your-help%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitzi Ridinger, a teacher from Sallisaw, Okla. has joined the ranks of National Education Association (NEA) members from Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina and California—who have all received pink slips—in urging their members of Congress to pass the “Education Jobs Fund.” ]]></description>
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