NEA Woos Republican Lawmakers

By Sean Cavanagh
New York

The nation's largest teachers' union staged a meet-and-greet luncheon on Aug. 30 to try to win over what has been a tough audience lately: Congressional Republicans.

If leaders from the National Education Association didn't win those lawmakers over, chances are they at least wowed them with the location: the swanky Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan.

The teachers' union, which has been highly critical of the No Child Left Behind Act signed into law by President Bush, invited a select group of GOP members of Congress who are in town for...

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