NEA Elects Landmark Leadership Team The nation’s largest union made history Friday at the National Education Association’s annual Representative Assembly by electing three women of color to their top leadership positions. Unprecedented in U.S. labor history, the NEA became the first major union to boast an all-female, all-minority leadership team. Kim Anderson, Senior Director of the NEA’s Center for Advocacy and Outreach: “This leadership team is reflective not only of the diversity of America, but more importantly the diversity that exists in our classrooms. I believe you’ll see from this leadership team, even more commitment to our social justice history and legacy as an organization, and I believe that you’ll see a commitment to making sure that test-based accountability systems get re-defined in a way that works for students and for educators.” In other business at the RA, the 9000 delegates voted Thursday and Friday to initiate a campaign against what they describe as the toxic testing system that has dominated public education in the last decade, and called for the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Secretary Duncan subsequently brushed off the NEA’s request for his resignation.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:33:33 +0000