Web Archive National Education Association (NEA)
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Title
- National Education Association (NEA)
Summary
- "The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. The NEA has just under 3 million members and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The NEA had a budget of more than $341 million for the 2012–2013 fiscal year. Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa is the NEA's current president. The stated mission of the NEA is 'to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.' The NEA, originally on the conservative side of U.S. politics, by the 1970s emerged as a factor in modern liberalism. While the NEA has a stated position of 'non-partisan', it typically supports the Democratic Party. Conservatives, libertarians, and parents' rights groups have criticized the NEA's liberal positions. State affiliates of the NEA regularly lobby state legislators for funding, seek to influence education policy, and file legal actions. At the national level, the NEA lobbies the United States Congress and federal agencies and is active in the nominating process for Democratic candidates. From 1989 through the 2014 election cycle, the NEA spent over $92 million on political campaign contributions, 97% of which went to Democrats." -- Summary retrieved on October 7, 2019 http://dbpedia.org/resource/National_Education_Association
Names
- National Education Association of the United States
Created / Published
- United States.
Headings
- - School employees. United States
- - National Education Association of the United States
- - Educators. United States
- - Education. United States
- - Teachers. United States
Genre
- website
Form
- electronic
Repository
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA
Source Url
- https://www.nea.org/
Access Condition
- Access restricted to on-site users
Scopes
- - nea.org (domain)
- - neatoday.org (domain)
- - pinterest.com/neatoday/ (domain)
- - www.youtube.com/user/NEAABS (domain)
- - www.flickr.com/photos/nea-hq/ (domain)
Online Format
- web page