National Parents Union

09/16/2026

ICYMI: Congressman Walberg gave powerful closing remarks on the House floor today, in support of the Science of Reading Act. Check out the video!

09/16/2026

“Today’s House passage of the Science of Reading Act is another important step toward confronting America’s literacy crisis with the urgency it deserves. NPU celebrates federal efforts to ensure that every child has access to effective, evidence-based reading instruction.” Read our full statement here: https://tinyurl.com/2h2b7m96

09/15/2026

🚨TONIGHT! If you haven't signed up, do it now. You won't want to miss this crucial conversation. 🚨

You won’t want to miss our next virtual town hall! Join us next Tuesday, September 15th at 6:30pm EST, for a conversation on AI in schools, finances, civic action and the issues YOU want included in our next national parent poll. Scan the QR code or click the link to register: https://tinyurl.com/22d33wpf

09/14/2026

Don't miss your chance to join us for our Back to School Town Hall! Scan the QR code or click the link to register: tinyurl.com/22d33wpf

You won’t want to miss our next virtual town hall! Join us next Tuesday, September 15th at 6:30pm EST, for a conversation on AI in schools, finances, civic action and the issues YOU want included in our next national parent poll. Scan the QR code or click the link to register: https://tinyurl.com/22d33wpf

09/13/2026

Roughly 2.5 million children in this country are raised by grandparents or other relatives. More than a third of them are under 6. On National Grandparents Day, when most of the attention goes to grandparents who visit, we are celebrating the ones who never left and are doing the raising.

09/11/2026

September 11, 2001 began as an ordinary Tuesday, under a cloudless sky that was the shade of blue that people comment on before they’ve had coffee. For many families, it was the second week of the school year, and parents who lived through that morning remember how normal it was, right up until it wasn’t. By the end of the day, thousands of people had been killed in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 members of NYC law enforcement.

For a few weeks that fall, this was a country where people treated a stranger’s grief as their own and nobody needed a reason to help. But moments like that fade, and the question now is not whether we remember. Of course we remember. The question is what became of the version of us that showed up that September, and how do we find it again.

Twenty-five years is long enough for a country to move on and nowhere near long enough for a family to. More than 3,000 children under 18 lost a parent. Their average age was nine. Those children are in their thirties now. Some of them are raising kids of their own who will never meet the grandparent whose photograph hangs in the hallway.

Today, we are thinking of every family that will carry this forever, and of the first responders still paying for the hours they spent in that dust.

The country marks this day once a year. For the people who lost someone, that loss shows up in a thousand small ways, at graduations, at weddings, and on ordinary Tuesdays in September when the sky happens to be that particular, amazing shade of blue.

09/11/2026

Thirty-five years ago, a Head Start Family Partner stopped Samuel Radford III outside a Head Start program in Buffalo, NY and told him, “We need you.” In the latest Parent Voice blog, Sam Radford tells us the impact those three words had & why Head Start is so important for more than just kids. Read the blog here: https://tinyurl.com/4fv5pxf7

09/10/2026

You won’t want to miss our next virtual town hall! Join us next Tuesday, September 15th at 6:30pm EST, for a conversation on AI in schools, finances, civic action and the issues YOU want included in our next national parent poll. Scan the QR code or click the link to register: https://tinyurl.com/22d33wpf

09/10/2026

The latest PISA results should set off alarm bells in Washington and across the country. The reading scores of American 15-year-olds have fallen significantly, and the 14-point decline places U.S. literacy scores at one of the lowest levels in 25 years.

We know how to fix it.

Find your senators here and call them today to urge them to support the READ Act: https://tinyurl.com/3t6s3sa3

09/09/2026

🚨LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Join the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) and National Parents Union TODAY at 1:30 pm ET for a free, 30-minute rapid response briefing dissecting the significance of the READ Act and its practical impact on all students. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2d3yzx5t