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Amanda Litvinov

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Washington, D.C.
As seen in: NEA Today Magazine, National Education Association
Covers:  Elections, state legislation, school funding, social and racial justice.
Senior writer @NEAToday ✍ Public schools advocate, Iowa native. All views my own.

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Education writer covering policy and classroom issues in public schools for NEA Today magazine and neatoday.org.

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5 Ways Strong Educator Unions Help Public Schools | NEA

5 Ways Strong Educator Unions Help Public Schools | NEA

The pandemic has underscored the vital contributions of educators and other public employees. They deserve to…

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More Teachers, Counselors, and Bus Drivers! | NEA

More Teachers, Counselors, and Bus Drivers! | NEA

Educators can and should have a say in how we spend pandemic relief funds reserved for education and protecti…

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Want to Boost Local Power? Labor-Management Collaboration Gives Educators a Voice. | NEA

Want to Boost Local Power? Labor-Management Collaboration Gives Educators a Voice. | NEA

NEA locals used collaboration and collective bargaining to create meaningful change, even as they took on the…

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Finding the Lost Students of the Pandemic

Finding the Lost Students of the Pandemic

Educators have gone above and beyond to locate missing students, and their work is not done.

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Oklahoma educators, voters demand lawmakers put education funding first - Education Votes

Oklahoma educators, voters demand lawmakers put education funding first - Education Votes

Frustrated by years of underfunding and a crisis-level teacher shortage, educators and parents are putting pr…

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States, schools brace for loss of federal funding for children's health coverage - Education Vote...

States, schools brace for loss of federal funding for children's health coverage - Education Vote...

Soon, millions of children will begin losing health care coverage and schools will be forced to curtail healt…

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Our Union Is Growing!

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By Amanda Litvinov
| National Education Association
When a new faculty union at Michigan State University (MSU) finally won recognition, in 2025, it was like seeing a plant emerge from the soil—50 years after the seed was sowed. After failed unionization efforts in the 1970s and 1990s, and years of organizing and hard-fought legal battles since 2020, MSU faculty have established the Union of Tenure System Faculty (UTSF). “This is a historic victory for tenure-system faculty at MSU,” the UTSF Organizing Committee said in a joint statement.
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Educators Sound the Alarm on the Dangers of Child Marriage

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By Amanda Litvinov
| National Education Association
By: Amanda Litvinov, Senior Writer Key Takeaways Across the country, more than 314,000 minors were legally married between 2000 and 2021. Most were 16 or older, but some were just 10 years old. Child marriage--which is considered human trafficking by the United Nations and the National Education Association--makes minors incredibly vulnerable because they do not have the same legal rights as an adult.
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Critical Rural School Funding Restored—but Problems Remain | NEA

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By Amanda Litvinov
| National Education Association
The beautiful rural community of Carson, Washington, sits along the Columbia River Gorge and is surrounded by forests. But this idyllic setting comes with a serious downside for the Stevenson-Carson school district, explains high school science teacher Joseph Hantho. Washington teacher and avid hiker Joseph Hantho knows first-hand the challenges rural schools face. “If you look at a map you see that less than 2 percent of Skamania County is taxable land,” he explains.
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