New developments on Capitol Hill call for continued action to save member jobs. An anticipated vote on the education jobs amendment did not take place yesterday. TODAY, we still need for members to contact Senator Hagan to ASK for a YES vote for cloture on the Small Business Bill and to support the Murray/Harkin Amendment for Education Jobs. According to NEA, the cloture vote is scheduled this morning. We need all members to call Senator Kay Hagan NOW at 1.866.608.6355.  Send an email now!

As president of NCAE -- representing nearly 60,000 educators across the state, I read with great interest the John Locke Foundation’s recommendations on how to recruit and retain quality teachers. In their right-wing think tank world, the key to quality education rests in privatizing our schools, paying teachers for standardized test scores, and stripping all educators of their professional rights. Of course the Locke Foundation also believes that BP is the corporate victim of overregulation and that Wall Street should be left to police their own.  More ...