The National Education Conference, hosted annually by the Milken Family Foundation, is always a time to celebrate teachers and their accomplishments. It's also the time when the new Milken Educator Award winners - 70 educators in 2008 - receive a $25,000 check that is presented with the award. Since 1987, 2,500 outstanding kindergarten-through-12th-grade educators in 48 states have received the Milken Educator Award. Above, several teachers celebrate with Mike.