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	National Education Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States, representing most of the country's teachers along with other school personnel.
		The NEA was founded by Robert Campbell as the National Teachers Association in 1850, and changed to its present name in 1857.
		NEA opposition to some of the education reforms of Republican administrations have also led to conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Education_Association (433 words)

	National Education Association (2/10/98)
		We are currently working with other education groups and corporations on a national public education campaign that will roll out this fall.
		Parents, educators, business people, lawmakers, and others who have a stake in the education of our children and young adults recognize that proficiency with the Internet is necessary for the level of academic achievement and skills required to succeed in the 21st century.
		These segments should include teachers; parents; librarians; school administrators, media specialists, and legal counsel; people and groups familiar with the Internet; business people; students; and teacher association representatives.
	www.ifea.net /nea_2_10.html (1968 words)

	The National Education Association
		The uniqueness of the National Education Association is found in the fact that it is a near monopoly supplier of teachers to a government enforced monopoly consumer, the public schools.
		In the 1960s the NEA, which was founded in 1857 as a professional association, was transformed into a labor union.
		For Christians in education there is a new professional organization that is committed to traditional values and the family.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/nea.html (2737 words)

	Welcome to NEA's Higher Education Home Page
		Known as the Bologna Process, plans are being developed to replace diverse national university models with a single higher education model that offers a three-year European bachelor's degree and a two-year master's.
		NEA Higher Ed Affiliates committed to membership recruitment of higher education members are eligible to apply for the 2006 Competitive Membership Grant.
		The "AFT-NEA Higher Education Summit: Sharing Our Successes, Challenges and Strategies" will feature three main workshop tracks: collective bargaining and union management, policy and public support, and teaching and learning-professional development.
	www.nea.org /he (531 words)

	CNN.com - IRS auditing National Education Association - Nov. 25, 2003
		The National Education Association promised Monday to cooperate, but its president, Reg Weaver, said the union "will not be silenced" by the audit or the conservative law firm that requested it.
		Landmark received the NEA documents as part of a lawsuit it filed that forced the IRS to disclose records identifying members of Congress who had asked the tax agency to audit political opponents.
		The IRS is auditing the nation's largest teachers union, scrutinizing an organization that works energetically to elect candidates but files tax returns reporting zero political expenditures from member dues.
	www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/11/25/teachers.irs.ap (622 words)

	Million Worker March: NEA Endorsement
		The National Education Association (NEA) with 12,000 delegates present at the national convention in Washington, D.C. endorsed resoundingly the Million Worker March in Washington, D.C. on October 17,2004.
		The National Education Association (NEA), the largest independent union in the United States, has endorsed the Million Workers March, to be held October 17, 2004 in Washington, DC.
		NEA now has joined with unions across the country, as well as many labor organizations and individuals, to endorse this historic national action to be held in the nation's capital this fall.
	www.millionworkermarch.org /article.php?id=53 (292 words)

	Flight Pundit » Blog Archive » National Education Association
		Flight Pundit » Blog Archive » National Education Association
		The NEA is rapidly becoming (yeah right… already are…) another front for the “Moveon.org” crowd, and with position statements like these, are continuing to lose credibility in making logical policy arguments for the nations education systems.
		The NEA shall expand our nationwide plan to elect pro public education candidates to Congress in 2006 by sponsoring political training for members in targeted areas leading up to the election.
	flightpundit.com /archives/2005/07/17/national-education-association (693 words)

	National Education Values
		However, given the NEA's support for abortion and promotion of homosexuality, its intimidation tactics and attacking of religious organizations, and its forays into various subjects with little relevance to education, conservative religious teachers have good reasons to be suspicious of this assertion.
		According to a resolution on sex education, the NEA believes that information about the "diversity of sexual orientation" should be included in sex education classes (B-38).
		The NEA specifically warns against groups such as Concerned Women for America, Eagle Forum, Family Research Council, Christian Coalition, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and the Traditional Values Coalition. According to the NEA, these groups' "aggressive campaigns, large followings, and strong-arm tactics divide communities and disrupt the work of public schools."
	home.iae.nl /users/lightnet/world/awaken/neavalues.htm (1427 words)

	National Education Association
		NEA recently conducted in-depth interviews with the education chairs of state legislative committees in 49 states.
		Western state governors embraced distance education when they agreed to create and fund the "virtual university," scheduled for operation the summer of 1997.
		Educators always have been drawn to technology because of its promise and potential.
	www.tecweb.org /eddevel/telecon/de913-3.html (1018 words)

	The Nevada State Education Association (NSEA)
		According to the National Education Association's (NEA) update to the annual report titled, "Rankings and Estimates: Rankings of the States 2004 and Estimates of School Statistics 2005," inflation increased 3.1 percent over the past year, while teacher salaries increased by only 2.3 percent.
		In what NEA said is a step in the right direction, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on Nov. 18 announced a pilot project that will allow states to evaluate the success of their schools and districts in meeting student achievement goals by measuring students' progress from year to year.
		APA is seeking a national representative sample of 1000 teachers from urban, suburban, and rural schools by June 2006.
	www.nsea-nv.org (1235 words)

	August 1996 Phyllis Schlafly Report -- The NEA Is About Politics, Not Education
		The National Education Association believes that all child care centers should be examined and monitored on a continuous basis, and additional legislation should be sought as necessary to maintain the highest quality child care.
		The National Education Association believes that, regardless of the immigration status of students or their parents, every student has the right to a free public education in an environment free from harassment.
		The National Education Association supports freedom of expression in the creative arts and therefore deplores any efforts by government to suppress, directly or indirectly, such expression.
	www.eagleforum.org /psr/1996/aug96/psraug96.html (2772 words)

	Welcome to AAE TEACHERS, The Association of American Educators
		We are a nonprofit, national professional trade association of teachers, administrators and support personnel that serves as a professional alternative to the partisan politics and noneducational agendas of the national teacher unions.
		association, offering educators an alternative to partisan politics and non-educational agendas of the teacher labor unions.
		We offer our members many of the same benefits that teachers unions provide at a fraction of the cost of union dues.
	www.aaeteachers.org (96 words)

	MNEA - Missouri National Education Association
		Six former Independence School District teachers, all members of the Missouri National Education Association, received $153,158 in settlement of their lawsuit against the district.
		The conference, sponsored by several business and education organizations from across the state of Missouri including MNEA and the Missouri Education Roundtable, will cover topics that discuss policy, funding and economic development of Missouri public education system.
		Four regional legislative brunches early in the 2006 legislative session provide Association members and leaders with the opportunity to get acquainted with area legislators and discuss the Association's legislative priorities.
	www.mnea.org (614 words)

	Capital Research Center - National Education Association of the United States
		The National Education Association and three of its Ohio affiliates have agreed to "make reasonable accommodation" for members with religious objections to funding the group's political causes.
		The National Education Association is teaming up with MoveOn.org, ACORN, and Campaign for America's Future to get more tax dollars for the education blob.
		The Politics of the PTA is a fascinating account of the transformation of the National PTA from a mothers-only organization to an NEA-dominated one that explicitly denies that it is an educational organization.
	www.capitalresearch.org /search/orgdisplay.asp?Org=NEA100 (1460 words)

	National Education Association
		The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing 2.6 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support personnel, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers.
		Washington, D.C. -- On behalf of 2.6 million teachers and school employees, the National Education Association (NEA) lauds the FCC report that recommends the Instructional Fixed Television Service (ITFS) remain intact for the use of educators and educational organizations.
		WEB NOW is a joint campaign sponsored by the ITFS Spectrum Development Alliance and National ITFS Association
	itfs.org /webnow/docs/nea.html (163 words)

	The misnamed National Education Association csmonitor.com
		If they did apply, the National Education Association would have had to change its name long ago.
		A more accurate name for the NEA would be something like the National Teachers Association, which would convey that the organization 's overarching mission is not about educating students, but about furthering the financial and occupational interests of teachers.
		Calling itself an education association is like calling the United Auto Workers union a driving association.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0824/p25s01-cogn.html (823 words)

	The National Education Association, NEA, educational psychology and the failure of modern education.
		The National Education Association, NEA, educational psychology and the failure of modern education.
		The NEA not only accepted all of this but was one of the main instruments for diffusing this educational philosophy among teachers.
		The NEA is a major controlling force behind what happens in the public schools, and is about the largest professional lobby in the United States.
	www.sntp.net /education/nea.htm (560 words)

	Education Secretary Paige calls teachers union ``terrorist organization''
		Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" Monday, taking on the 2.7-million-member National Education Association early in the presidential election year.
		Education has been a top issue for the governors, who have sought more flexibility from the administration on Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law, which seeks to improve school performance in part by allowing parents to move their children from poorly performing schools.
		The education secretary's words were "pathetic and they are not a laughing matter," said Weaver, whose union has said it plans to sue the Bush administration over lack of funding for demands included in the "No Child Left Behind" schools law.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/23/national1505EST0659.DTL (885 words)

	WorldNetDaily: NEA: Warping young minds
		As millions of children head back to class this week, members of the National Education Association will be at the schoolhouse door, waiting to warp impressionable minds.
		In terms of shaping the content of public education, the NEA is more powerful than all the school committees and education boards in the land.
		As its 2001 national convention demonstrated, the NEA's platform is indistinguishable from the agendas of the ACLU or People For the American Way.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24342 (734 words)

	National Community Education Association (NCEA): Join NCEA
		Founded in 1966, the National Community Education Association (NCEA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization that provides training, information, leadership and networking opportunities, and advocacy for its individual and institutional members and state and local affiliates.
		The association is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors; 12 of the directors are chosen by the membership in national and regional elections.
		If you are not already a member of the leading association in the country serving the needs of community education and 21st CCLC professionals, then you are missing out on the numerous advantages our members enjoy.
	www.ncea.com /join_ncea (764 words)

	The NEA Foundation
		Preference will be given to members of the National Education Association.
		faculty and staff at public higher education institutions.
		The foundation’s grants provide opportunities for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth.
	www.neafoundation.org /programs/grantguides.htm (1622 words)

	National Education Association
		The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing more than 2.4 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support personnel, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers.
		SEPTEMBER 8, 1998 10:40 AM National Education Association
		The cost of modernizing the nation's public schools has been estimated at $112 billion by the U.S. General Accounting Office, and an additional $100 billion may be needed for new schools to meet the demands of soaring enrollments.
	www.commondreams.org /pressreleases/Sept98/090898c.htm (335 words)

	Donor Profiles
		Founded in 1857, the National Education Association (NEA) is the nation’s oldest—and largest—teachers union.
		The NEA lobbies elected and government officials on everything from government funding of education to school safety to teacher pay.
		He suffered a major defeat in 1998 when the NEA membership defeated a proposal he backed to merge with a smaller but influential rival union, the American Federation of Teachers.
	www.opensecrets.org /orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000064 (264 words)

	NEA: National Education Association Home Page
		NEA members, leaders, and officials are in the news.
		NEA and this popular syndicated radio personality aim to boost minority teachers in urban and rural communities by helping them become fully licensed.
		NEA is 2.7 million members working to provide great public schools.
	www.nea.org (379 words)

	National Education Association
		The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing more than 2.4 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support personnel, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers.
		NEW ORLEANS - July 6 - Delegates to the National Education Association's (NEA) Representative Assembly today set the association's course for continued cooperation and collaboration with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), proclaiming their commitment to pursuing unity.
		The NEA negotiating team will, in addition, consult on a regular basis with a negotiations advisory committee consisting of, among others, a representative group of leaders from large and small state affiliates and state affiliates that supported and opposed the Principles of Unity.
	www.commondreams.org /pressreleases/070698a.htm (657 words)

	National Education Association on Encyclopedia.com
		BOSTON, MA - Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association, speaks during the second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
		The National Art Education Association: meeting the challenges of reform and change.
		NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION [National Education Association] (NEA), organization of professional educators in the United States, with almost 2.5 million members.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NatlE1duc.asp (1183 words)

	NEA's Anti-education Partisanship Exposed
		NEW YORK — National Education Association, with 2.6 million members, is the nation's largest union and one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.
		Democratic Party documents show that an organization called "National Coordinated Campaign Steering Committee," which included NEA representatives, set national and statewide campaign strategy for Democrat candidates and coordinated spending on their behalf.
		One of every 12 delegates to the 2000 Democratic National Convention was a member.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/1/24/105439.shtml (762 words)

	National Community Education Association (NCEA)
		The International Community Education Association (ICEA) is the leading international membership organization in the field of Community Education.
		In cooperation with the National Community Education Association (NCEA), the University of Wisconsin at River Falls is creating a new graduate-level certificate program in community education to meet this national need.
		Community education is most easily recognized in the community school, a facility that is open beyond the traditional school day for the purpose of providing academic, recreation, health, social service, and work-preparation programs for people of all ages.
	www.ncea.com (745 words)

	Education Exchange, July 1998
		$175,000 to the Ohio Education Association in "its Every Child Counts" campaign.
		While the merger of the national teacher unions is on hold, the delegates directed the President and the Executive Committee to develop guidelines to permit mergers of state NEA and AFT affiliates.
		Currently, NEA and AFT state affiliates are ready to merge in Minnesota and Montana; Florida affiliates have preparatory documents ready, and a handful of other states have had informal discussions.
	www.educationpolicy.org /newsletter/EEJul98.htm (1636 words)

	National "Indoctrination" Association - The New American - August 23, 2004
		They were Roger Knutsen the then-president of the National Council for Higher Education, NEA’s advocacy group for higher ed issues, and Virginia Ann Shadwick, a librarian at San Francisco State University and a member of the California Faculty Association.
		In 1857, when the NEA was organized, it was indeed a professional organization, concerned with standards, ethics and educational techniques.
		As a replacement for NEA membership, teachers can investigate joining other organizations, such as the Association of American Educators.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2004/08-23-2004/indoctrination.htm (2166 words)

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