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Amanda Litvinov

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Education Writer at NEA Today Magazine

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  • 2 weeks ago | nea.org | Amanda Litvinov

    Iowa Spanish teacher Nancy Baker Curtis’s nine-and-a-half-year-old son Charlie loves monster trucks, playing with his friends, and bike-riding with his mom. Earlier this year, he was running down the sidewalk, fell, and had to get stitches in his chin. “It’s terrible, of course, but it’s also amazing because at the age of two, he couldn’t crawl or even sit up,” says Baker Curtis.

  • 1 month ago | nea.org | Amanda Litvinov

    “I’ve spent the last 10 years working myself to death, doing every extra duty job I could to make sure my retirement would be enough to sustain me,” says California teacher LaTonya Curlin. “Starting next year, I won’t have to work those four extra duty jobs.”    When former President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Jan. 5, Curlin’s future suddenly looked a lot brighter.

  • 1 month ago | nea.org | Amanda Litvinov

    But when former President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law, on Jan. 5, the future suddenly looked brighter for her and many other retired educators. The law repealed the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), rules that became part of Social Security law in 1983, unfairly reducing the benefits that public employees or their spouses earned. The victory means everything to Genone and educators like her.

  • 1 month ago | nea.org | Amanda Litvinov

    On April 30, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear two cases that could force states to use public funding for religious charter schools, which would drain resources for traditional public schools and further degrade the once-sacred wall separating church and state. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. DrummondandSt. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v.

  • 1 month ago | nea.org | Amanda Litvinov

    The Trump administration’s torrent of firings and funding cuts at the U.S. Department of Education has drawn broad criticism from experts and former education secretaries in both parties. President Trump and Elon Musk’s stated intention to “move education back to the states” is equally concerning to public education supporters and experts. Why?

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