NEA Lists Its Goals and Democrats Agree
Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off about their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
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The NEA Lists Its Goals And Democrats Agree
Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off with their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
Continue reading →Anti-Parent Policies in Public Schools
Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA).
Continue reading →NEA Agenda is Frightening to Parents
Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA). Meeting in Orlando this year in annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the NEA adopted a long series of left-liberal resolutions.
Continue reading →How Public Schools Have Changed
Parents are on the warpath about the way 63,000 public schools are now starting their fall term in August, some even in hot July. Thousands of parents have organized Save Our Summers campaigns, and protests in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Florida have hit the national media.
Continue reading →Follies and Failures of the National Education Assn.
The largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), held its annual convention this summer in Los Angeles displaying its usual favoritism toward the gays and the feminists, hostility to parents, and support of liberal causes.
Continue reading →The NEA’s Lobbying Agenda
The 2004 national convention of the National Education Association adopted its usual leftwing legislative goals, giving the green light to the NEA’s highly paid staff to lobby the Congress that will convene in January 2005.
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Political Activism Takes Center Stage With The NEA
The head of the NEA, Reg Weaver, opened the annual convention in July in Washington, DC with a call for public school teachers and employees to mobilize to defeat President Bush this fall.
Continue reading →Who Controls Education Policies?
The Bush Administration has just re-affirmed the Clintonian feminists’ Title IX outrages, which impose a gender quota-like system on college sports. The feminists are squealing with joy and the National Women’s Law Center calls it a “huge win” — for the feminists, of course. Bush is dreaming if he thinks they will ever reward him with their votes.
Continue reading →NEA Gears Up To Elect Democrats
Tropical Storm Bill roared into New Orleans this summer carrying in its tailwind 10,000 convention delegates who purport to represent 2.7 million members of the National Education Association. They call themselves “the world’s largest democratic, deliberative body,” but the NEA’s version of democracy is: majority rules, and the minority have no rights.
Continue reading →NEA Conventioneers Continue their Mischief
The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →NEA Conventioneers Plot Anti-Voucher Action
The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →NEA Goals, Spin, and Concealment
You’ve got to hand it to the National Education Association. The NEA’s press people and spin artists know how to manipulate the news. The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed “New B” resolution regarding “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education.”
Continue reading →The Policy Behind The Controversy
The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed “New B” resolution regarding “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education.”
Continue reading →NEA Fights to Maintain School Monopoly
At its annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the National Education Association flung down the gauntlet in its war against school competition, a.k.a. school choice.
Continue reading →NEA Fights to Maintain School Monopoly
The federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has illustrated the evil of monopolies and the tactics that monopolists use to maintain their power. But the biggest monopoly in our midst, the public school system guarded by the teachers unions, seems so far untouchable.
Continue reading →Decoding the NEA Resolutions
The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), met for its annual convention in Orlando, Florida, over the Fourth of July weekend.
Continue reading →The NEA Union Stays the Leftwing Course
The NEA supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for “children from birth through age eight.” NEA members must be living on another planet if they think the American people are willing to put their babies in public schools starting at birth.
Continue reading →Teachers Unions Stay the Course
The good news is, we were saved from the threat of a mega-union running the public schools when delegates to the National Education Association (NEA) convention this summer repudiated their own leadership by voting down a merger with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Continue reading →Is the NEA Union ‘Molding the Future’?
While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to celebrate their political victories.
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