NEA's Delegates Approve Obama Endorsement, Dues Increase
Despite a lot of hand-wringing, delegates to the National Education Association's Representative Assembly approved an early endorsement for President Barack Obama, and by a good margin: 5,414 delegates, or 72.04 percent, voted in favor, according to results that were just released here.
It looks like I was right after all. (The measure required a 58 percent "yes" vote in order to pass.)
The approval triggers the flow of NEA PAC dollars toward Obama's re-election campaign.
And that's not all. 70.1 percent of the body, or 5,258 delegates, approved the amendment to the bylaws that authorize the $10-per-member annual assessment, 60 percent of which will be used primarily to support the
