• Education Reform Continues as Federal Funds Dry Out

  April 2, 2013 by Brenda Álvarez

  The first round of School Improvement Grant funding is now in its last year. Looking back, what’s been learned through SIG schools receiving NEA support? More important, what will happen once the funding ends?

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  Indiana School Becomes the Heart of a Community

  September 7, 2012 by Brenda Álvarez

  Educators at Glenwood Leadership Academy are demonstrating how collaborative efforts among groups with a vested interest in education can support the whole student and lift a community from despair.

• NEA Leaders Focus Media Attention on Priority Schools

  September 19, 2011 by PSC Editor

  Standing Strong for Students Fall marks the start of Year Two of PSC providing intensive support to 34 schools across 16 states. To engage educators early in the school year, NEA executed a back-to-school tour showcasing NEA members helping students succeed…

• Union officials: Evansville a national model in teacher relations

  September 13, 2011 by PSC Editor

  The Evansville Courier & Press reports that Evansville is a national model in teachers union-school district collaboration, visiting union officials said Monday. Indiana State Teachers Association President Nate Schnellenberger and National Education Association Secretary-Treasurer Rebecca Pringle said Monday that initiatives crafted by…

• Tour Day One Evansville: Empowering Educators for Student-Centered Innovation

  September 12, 2011 by PSC Editor

  Today through Thursday, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and Secretary Treasurer Becky Pringle are on the road for first-hand views of the work of members. Van Roekel and Pringle  will visit schools to view union-led innovation, transformation and partnership in Dayton,…

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  Change Agents: Profiles of Union Leaders Driving Education Reform

  September 8, 2011 by PSC Editor

  The Summer 2011 issue of NEA Today magazine highlighted union-led efforts to help transform priority schools in some of America’s neediest communities. Here are the stories of five union leaders who were featured on the magazine’s cover and who are…

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  Students Off to a Healthy Start with Breakfast in the Classroom

  August 8, 2011 by Brenda Álvarez

  When you think of school backpacks, you typically imagine them filled with books, spiral-bound note pads, folders, pencils and pens. But what do backpacks and school breakfast programs have in common? Typically, nothing. That is until you travel to Evansville,…

• Equity Schools are on Passing Track

  July 26, 2011 by PSC Editor

  By Keith Gambill President, Evansville Teachers Association Conventional wisdom says that unions and school administrations are like oil and water—they don’t mix. But, the Evansville Teachers Association likes to challenge the norm. And, because of our bold partnership with the Evansville Vanderburgh…

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  Spotlight Shines on NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign

  July 5, 2011 by Amy Buffenbarger

  Just two years after the 2009 Representative Assembly mandated NEA to create a program that would focus resources to transform struggling schools, delegates had a front row seat to view how the union is leading the way to change the…

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  Garden Helps to Engage Students, Get Involved in Community

  July 2, 2011 by Amy Buffenbarger

  Tilling soil, shoveling ten tons of gravel, laying paving stones and growing crops aren’t normal job duties for an educator. But for staff at McGary Middle School in Evansville, Indiana, that’s exactly what they are doing this summer as they…