Weaver Calls on Delegates to Make Covenant With Nation
NEA president rallies members against what he sees as foes of public education.
The leader of the nation’s largest teachers’ union laid out a six-point plan last week for strengthening public education.
Reg Weaver, 66, who was elected here without opposition to a second, three-year term as the president of the National Education Association, also delivered a sharp critique of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
He called on some 8,000 union activists gathered for the NEA’s annual Representative Assembly to make a covenant with the nation that calls for better working environments and professional development for teachers, more parent involvement, “fixing and funding” the federal education law, ending privatization of the jobs of education support personnel, adequate funding of schools, and professional...
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