Educators Alarmed at White House’s Dangerous Proposal to Arm Teachers
The White House repeated its dangerous proposal to arm teachers in the wake of another mass school shooting. The National Education Association represents 3 million educators who work in América’s…
An Interpreter’s View of Detainees in Georgia
Shortly after the Trump administration’s anti-immigration strategy began to take effect last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI). With four bare-bones offices…
The Unimaginable Outlier List
I went to Broward County at the invitation of our colleagues there. There was no speech to give. No press conference. No interviews. There was just disbelief and pain and the…
Forging On the Education Issues They Ignore
We heard a lot from the GOP President last night. He touted his billionaire tax handout and isolationist immigration policies. But you know what he didn’t discuss? He failed to…
Revoking DACA Tramples on Our Core American Values
Upon taking office, President Trump signaled on more than one occasion that he’d look at DACA recipients—Dreamers, aspiring young Americans, neighbors, colleagues, and, yes, our students—with ‘great heart.’ Instead, today…
Trans Community: You Are Worthy, Fit To Serve
I’m an Army Brat and proud of it. My dad escaped the poverty of a sharecropper’s life in Mississippi at the age of 16, fudged on his age and joined the…
NEA Welcomes Dream Act of 2017
Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on July 20th, introduced the Dream Act of 2017, legislation aimed at granting legal status and a path to citizenship for undocumented…
Every Student Deserves to Be Heard
Students who are victims of sexual assault or harassment are often afraid they won’t be believed or taken seriously, and terrified they’ll be victimized in a different way by people…
Felicitaciones Wildin Acosta
A year ago, I had tears in my eyes to learn of one of our students, Wildin Acosta, was taken by ICE agents to be deported. He was in the…
Communities Unite for Undocumented Students
To Vicente Rodríguez, activism comes as naturally as breathing. That’s why the University of California, Riverside DREAMer is studying to become a high school English and ethnic studies teacher; for…