NEA Representatives Air Their Differences With Obama Agenda

Concerns center on performance pay, charter push

San Diego

Blessed by perfect, sunny weather, delegates to the National Education Association’s annual meeting here had plenty of chances to sneak away and visit this city’s world-famous attractions.

Most chose not to. The day before official business began at the Representative Assembly, nearly 7,000 of the union’s delegates packed into the city’s convention center to listen to Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education.

After Mr. Duncan had departed —and throughout the Fourth of July weekend—delegates proposed and debated resolution after resolution on elements of the Obama administration’s...