National Teachers’ Union Poised to Endorse Hillary Clinton

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____ The nation’s largest union is close to endorsing Hillary Clinton. The political action group of the National Education Association voted to recommend a Clinton endorsement to the NEA’s administrative board during a recent meeting in Washington, according to a press release.

The NEA represents about 3 million educators and has branches in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. The NEA Fund for Children and Public Education lobbies for the teachers’ union at the state and national levels.

The national endorsement need not reflect endorsements from state and local boards. Clinton’s main rival for the nomination, Bernie Sanders, has already been endorsed by NEA-Vermont (his home state), and the socialist candidate has a large base of supporters within the NEA in other states. The national organization reached out to Sanders, Clinton and Martin O’Malley as part of its endorsement process and seems to have settled firmly on the Democratic front-runner. No Republican candidates took part.

An email circulated among NEA leaders states that “Clinton is the best positioned candidate to win both the Democratic primary and general election. She has unmatched organizational strength, ground game, and fundraising ability to defeat the candidate of the Koch brothers,” according to Politico.


read: http://www.newsweek.com/national-education-association-teachers-union-hillary-clinton-endorsement-379393

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1. I thought AFT who already endorsed Hillary is

Part of NEA? Yet they still do separate endorsements? Either way, go Hillary!

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2. the NEA - AFT Partnership

The nation's two leading education organizations, NEA and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), formed the NEA-AFT Partnership out of a commitment by both organizations to work together on behalf of our members and on behalf of all those whom our members serve.

As separate organizations and through the Partnership, the NEA and AFT are committed to nurturing and improving public education above all. We are determined to fight for family needs, which must be met in order to make our public schools the equalizer they have been and should be for society. This encompasses quality of life issues, such as health care for all Americans, safe neighborhoods and a caring government.

The Partnership leaves each organization free to differ and to conduct each organization's work separately and independently, but enables the two groups to work together in a new relationship focused at every level of our organizations on common interests we share about critical educational issues and issues of vital significance to children.

http://www.nea.org/home/11204.htm

[BlueWaveDem]

3. Ah ok, thanks. I knew they teamed up, didn't know they were still separate orgs.

So I guess similar to AFL and CIO.