Newton Teachers Association

06/11/2026

Temperature as of 7:20 this morning at Horace Mann (in the former L-E building). What are your thermostats reading today?

06/11/2026

Congratulations, MEU!

06/04/2026

Calling all NTA members! Save the date for our annual General Membership Meeting on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00pm. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Watch your email in the coming days for a registration link.

05/21/2026

Introducing... your 2026 NTA Negotiations Team! We had a thoughtful, collaborative, and productive meeting this evening.

05/20/2026

Just a few thermostat readings from NPS classrooms this week - these are unacceptable teaching and learning conditions.

Newton educators: how hot did your room get today and yesterday?

04/28/2026

Join your union siblings this MAY DAY: Friday, May 1st!

04/07/2026

"The committee voted for “Plan B,” the one that funds the math advancements but cuts half of the district’s only DEI department position, the district’s sustainability position and behavioral support service staff."

Last week, confronted with a budget allocation that doesn’t provide level-services funding to NPS, the School Committee faced a choice: Cut jobs in behavioral services, DEI and sustainability or put off implementing the district’s new [...]

04/01/2026

Wayback Wednesday to April 2022, where the message remains the same as April 2026: stop the cuts, fund the schools!

Angier educators are fired up!

Sign up to give public comment at the budget hearing tonight:
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03/31/2026

“Most of you are new actors in your roles, but the play hasn’t changed in decades,” Newton parent Madeline McNeely said to the School Committee Monday night. “What’s it going to take to write a new script, a new play that inspires us year after year?”

McNeely was one of many there—so many, in fact, that some had to stand in the hallway—to voice their frustration over potential NPS cuts brought on by a more than $2.7 million gap between what Superintendent Anna Nolin says will allow level-services plus a new districtwide math initiative and what Mayor Marc Laredo has allocated for the schools.

The NPS budget crisis—which seems to have become an unfortunate annual tradition—has the School Committee deciding whether to sacrifice diversity and behavioral health positions for a much-demanded districtwide math programming overhaul.

“Most of you are new actors in your roles, but the play hasn’t changed in decades,” Newton parent Madeline McNeely said to the School Committee Monday night. “What’s it going to take to write a [...]

03/24/2026

"The School Committee meeting room in the Education Center was packed Monday night—people were even standing in the halls—as the city grapples with another budget season mired in a seemingly endless school funding crisis whose flames have been fanned by inflation since the COVID-19 pandemic.

People spoke about their anger, their fear and their expectation that a new mayor will find a way to fund Superintendent Anna Nolin’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request.

“The community cares about this,” Amelia Oliver said. “This is an untenable situation. Please fund a level-services budget for our school district.” "

In this sequel, the faces have changed, but the plot is the same. The School Committee meeting room in the Education Center was packed Monday night—people were even standing in the halls—as the city grapples [...]