Just got this release from the National Education Association, which describes itself as "the nation’s largest labor organization as well as the nation’s largest professional association."
The NEA went to all the trouble of putting out this release to let us know (like I was sitting here wondering or something) that it "remains on the sidelines in the competition for endorsements by the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates."
The groups seems to think this is a state of affairs that everybody’s going to want to jump to change right quick:
With the failure of Super Tuesday to define a clear-cut favorite for the Party’s nomination however, the most valuable, and perhaps the most important, endorsement remains unclaimed by either Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
No mention, by the way, in either the e-mail or the attached Word file, of anyone at the NEA waiting to be wooed by any Republican candidate. Probably an oversight.
In any case, whatever your party, I hope things work out so that the NEA stays out of this, for the simple fact that the presidency should have little to do with K-12 education. Here’s the way the NEA looks at it:
“Both Democratic candidates have strong records on education, but our members want to know about their visions and their plans for the future, and we haven’t really heard that yet. If they haven’t made education a central part of their campaigns, how can we feel confident that they will make education a central part of their administration?”
The NEA’s position is self-contradictory. It complains that "For the past eight years, America’s public schools have been the victims of top down, manage by mandate federal education policy," when the clear and obvious solution is to get the federal government out of the business of trying to oversee education.
Sheesh. These people make no more sense than those self-described "conservatives" who are trying to help elect Hillary Clinton.
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