Educators deserve respect—as professionals and the experts who help students learn and grow—nothing less. TAKE ACTION!https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/how-has-advanced-degree-helped-you-be-better-educator

Combined with the incredibly high cost of higher education, fewer future educators will be able to afford to enter the profession and earn the advanced degrees that help students learn.

To add insult to injury, these new caps will force new educators—including teachers, nurses, counselors, and higher ed staff—to turn to private loans, which do not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

These new caps give the impression that our degrees are less valuable and less professional than other degrees. We ALL know that education is the mother of ALL other degrees.

Earlier this year, Republicans in Congress passed a tax bill along party lines that took money from Medicaid & SNAP to pay for billionaire tax breaks. The law, known as H.R. 1, also imposed new, arbitrary caps on federal loans for students pursuing graduate degrees.