GOP Shift on Education Pleases Moderates, Teacher Delegates
Philadelphia
Some moderate Republican lawmakers found a sympathetic audience of teachers’ union members this week as they talked up a shift in their party’s approach to education during the 2000 GOP convention.
The National Education Association—which has 42 members serving as delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention this week in Philadelphia—on Tuesday sponsored a forum to honor legislators the organization has endorsed.
“I was very proud of my political party last night,” said U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle, R-Del., referring to the convention’s focus on education on Monday night, the first night of...
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