Reporter's Notebook

Flashy, clamoring Las Vegas did its best to distract members of the American Federation of Teachers, but delegates to the union's biennial convention nonetheless passed a flurry of amended and new policies July 15-18.

In an uncontested bid for president, Sandra Feldman was re-elected to her third two-year term to lead the 1.3 million-member union.

"I'm proud to say that we are the fastest-growing union in the labor movement—and have been for the past five years," Ms. Feldman told a cheering audience of more than 3,600 delegates...

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