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Show 37 recently listed five tasks for the NEA: 1. We must become the foremost political power in the nation. Anything less will be insufficient to place education at the top of the nation's priorities. 2. We must fairly to it, through the collective bargaining and processes, that teachers everywhere are treated and that they are no longer blocked out of educa tional decision making. see legislative 3. We must reach out to the citizens of our communities and bring them back into the public schools. The ultimate success and or failure of our maintaining public 4. We must 5. We must aspirations depends see to it that racism and sexism every classroom in the nation. strong political force. a in 1976 the NEA endorsed States. The are banished from wanting was justified supported For years the NEA offered rebuttal was a John Ryor, union.45 history, Today as being necessary for the After the election the NEA won.44 to anyone the NEA still suggesting that the rejects merger liThe Uses of Teacher Power,1I Today's Education 64 (November-December 1975): 4411Carter its members be For the first time in its in the country. boasted when the candidate it organization to have candidate for President of the United a policy change improvement of education 43 winning acknowledge our common destiny with other public employees and work cooperatively to ensure that we are no longer treated as second-class citizens.43 It appears that the NEA is serious in come on trust. 5. 11 Endorsed by NEA Deseret News, 17 September For an NEA justification of its endorsement 1976, p. A-l. policy, see liNEA Delegates Clear the Way for Presidential Endorsement,1I NEA Repor ter 15 (September 1976): 2-3. See also "Teacher Power Proves Itse 1f at the Ballot Box,1I NEA Reporter 15 (December 1976): 1. 45Myron Phi Delta .... Lieberman, "Implications of the Coming NEA-AFT Merger,1I Kappan 50 (November 1968): 139-44. |
