As last reported, the idea of a nationwide teachers walkout for full school funding at corporate expense was greeted by passionate cheers on July 2. That was at an NEA forum attended by several hundred delegates just one day before the organization’s four-day Representative Assembly opened in San Diego. And it was after the famous, [...]
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Political Strike for Equal, Quality Public Schools… A crazy notion?
Posted July 9th, 2009 by Craig Gordon | No CommentsGetting fifty signatures to qualify New Business Item 11 for a vote by the NEA Representative Assembly was slow going at first. (The text of NBI 11, calling for a 48-hour nationwide strike for full funding of public education at corporate expense, is in the previous post.)
When I passed the form for the NBI down [...]