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NEA President to Representative Assembly: We Have the Power… and They Know It
National Education Association ^ | July 2, 2017 | Tim Walker

Posted on 07/06/2017 5:41:53 PM PDT by mdittmar

“This is not a drill,” NEA President Lily Eskelsen García told the 2017 NEA Representative Assembly. “We stand in a dangerous place. We stand between a profiteer and his profits. We have a president who resides at the dangerous intersection of arrogance and ignorance and travels with a moral compass that always points to his own self-interest.”

In her keynote address on Sunday, Eskelsen García laid out in stark terms the dangers posed by the agenda of President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, but reminded the 7,500 delegates gathered in the Boston Convention Center that “we can win. We have the power, and they know it.”

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To: mazda77

It is high time to send kids to private schools or home school them. This common core is garbage. Look at any lesson plan. Sad.


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