No Obama endorsement this July.
The reports are that NEA President Dennis Van Roekel wants the NEA RA to endorse Barack Obama for a second term at this summer’s meeting with no strings attached and no questions asked.
I’m a delegate.
If it comes to a vote, I’m voting no.
What I’ll do in November of 2012 is a different matter. That remains to be seen.
But this July?
No way.
In March of 2010, when 100 of my colleagues were fired from their teaching jobs in Central Fall Rhode Island, this is what Barack Obama said to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
“If a school is struggling, we have to work with the principal and the teachers to find a solution. We’ve got to give them a chance to make meaningful
