NEA Reaches Out to Republicans
New York
The National Education Association is using this week's Republican National Convention as a springboard to reach out to Republicans more than ever before, despite an endorsement earlier this year of Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts for president.
At an Aug. 29 meeting for Republican convention delegates who are members of the NEA, leaders of the teachers' union sketched out efforts to work with Republicans and to highlight the contributions of GOP politicians to causes supported by the union.
"If in fact there's one party in power, you're foolish not to try to develop some sort of relationship with that party in power," NEA President Reg...
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