NEA's 4th of July: Red, White, Blue ... and Green
The National Education Association is quietly turning green.
For easy recycling, the representative assembly's internal newspaper, RA Today, is devoid of color and pictures and news stories this year: It prints just the resolutions. And delegates can access it through electronic channels rather than picking up paper copies.
And for the first year, the union has "green delegates." About 1,000 of the union's around 9,000 delegates have opted out of the traditional printed materials that delegates receive. Instead, they download all of the convention materials from a website.
The union hopes to have even more green delegates next year.
This appears to be more than just an RA thing, too. Back at the ranch, the NEA's headquarters on 16th Street in
For easy recycling, the representative assembly's internal newspaper, RA Today, is devoid of color and pictures and news stories this year: It prints just the resolutions. And delegates can access it through electronic channels rather than picking up paper copies.
And for the first year, the union has "green delegates." About 1,000 of the union's around 9,000 delegates have opted out of the traditional printed materials that delegates receive. Instead, they download all of the convention materials from a website.
The union hopes to have even more green delegates next year.
This appears to be more than just an RA thing, too. Back at the ranch, the NEA's headquarters on 16th Street in