We are saddened and outraged by yet another mass shooting, this time in Highland Park, IL. The victims deserve more than our thoughts and our prayers; they deserve action to…

NJEA’s officers, President Sean M. Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Robertson, issued this statement today following the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade: “We are…

In response to gun violence that took the lives of educators and students in Uvalde, Texas, and Black shoppers in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and the epidemic…

By Kaitlyn Dunphy, Esq. This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, signed into law on June 23, 1972. In the past 50 years, Title IX…

By Efrain Monterroso  As a first-generation college graduate, I am grateful for my college experience, but it was sometimes a struggle to navigate the higher education system. Even though I…

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will appear at the NJEA Convention on Friday, Nov. 11.…

Creating connections, community, curriculum  New Jersey has a variety of representative curricula: Amistad, Holocaust, LGBTQIA+, Persons with Disabilities, and effective as of September 2022, Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Yet…

The weekend of April 8 through 10 was focused on NJEA’s higher education members who were able to hold their first in-person conference in over two years. The weekend included…