[FreedomPoster]

Over 10 years ago, Forbes called the NEA "The National Extortion Association". I can't find the article online, but here's a reference.

Brimelow, Peter and Leslie Spencer. "The National Extortion Association?" Forbes. June 7, 1993. Pages 72-84.

If this is the same article I am remembering, the cover said something like "the most dangerous organization in America".

[leprechaun9]

Excerpt from FORBES:

The National Extortion Association? (National EducationAssociation and school choice) (Cover Story)

Forbes; 6/7/1993; Spencer, Leslie

As the National Education Association has gained in monopoly power, the cost of education has increased while its quality has deteriorated. But monopolies are by nature unstable, and this undemocratic labor union may have met its match in the movement for school choice.

"... quit talking about letting kids escape...."

--Keith Geiger, 52, president of the National Education Association teachers union, denouncing the increasingly popular idea that tax monies now spent on education should instead be given directly to students to be spent in the public or private school of their choice; on the Larry King Show, Nov. 10, 1992.

KEITH GEIGER'S STYLE may be more polished now than in his salad days as president of the NEA's Michigan Education Association affilia...