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Monday, July 4, 2011

Preview of Upcoming Resolutions to Watch - Teacher Beat - #NEARA11

Preview of Upcoming Resolutions to Watch - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Preview of Upcoming Resolutions to Watch

Here at the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly, we've reached the cutoff for new business items and we now have the full list available.

Most of them toe the line of years past (support for national-board certification, condemnation of "privatization"), but there are a few that caught my eye.

Here's a list of four to watch:

• New Business Item 37, which just passed a few moments ago, calls on NEA to inform members about the "anti-public education agenda behind the ill-informed intrusion of billionaires on education." (The NEA's independent foundation, by the way, receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but never mind.)

• New Business item 46, which we'll get to this afternoon, would require the NEA to organize a "national