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Note to NEA RA: Support for endorsement waning? « Fred Klonsky's blog #neara11

Note to NEA RA: Support for endorsement waning? « Fred Klonsky's blog

Note to NEA RA: Support for endorsement waning?

The Twitter buzz is that floor fights over an early no strings Obama endorsement and the Policy Statement on accountability and teacher evaluation will be front and center at the NEA RA starting tomorrow in Chicago.

But don’t bet on it.

The National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA), which met earlier this week in anticipation of the RA, failed to support the early endorsement or the policy statement.

This might be seen as sending a message to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel that the votes aren’t there for either one, or that the fight over both or either would be so bruising as