Video: The NEA on Education in Florida
Our country's oldest and longest running convention, The 148^th Annual National Education Association Convention took place last week in New Orleans.

As federal and state revenues continue to decline nationwide and in Florida, experts say that the resulting teacher layoffs and program and curriculum cuts could throw education into a full-blown crisis.

Florida State NEA Vice President Joanne McCall joined thousands of delegates, educators and state reps to talk about the biggest education issues and how it affects our state including:

• Class Size in FL

• Education Funding

• Impact of cuts on students: Educator layoffs lead to crowded classrooms and dramatic cuts to after-school programs, arts, music, sports, and even subjects like social studies and history.

• Reauthorization of ESEA:  ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) reauthorization is heating up. The Obama Administration has a blueprint for reauthorization that NEA believes has significant problems and raises serious concerns. Of particular concern are a continued reliance on test scores as a means of categorizing schools and evaluating teachers and an emphasis on troubling school turnaround models. Educators are telling the White House and Congress to revise the pages of the blueprint that don't work for kids and replace them with better solutions.

Click on the video link to hear what Joanne Collins had to say.