[EdReform]

Now is the time to help bust the NEA.

We need to make more people aware that the NEA is NOT an "education association" but a labor union. The NEA and their state affiliates are opposed to Homeschooling, and have been charged with breaking federal law by illegally using teacher union dues for political purposes.

A simple way to help fight the NEA is to call the Association of American Educators and ask them to send you some of their brochures. Pass them out to teachers, parents, and college students who are education majors. Every time a teacher refuses to join the NEA, resigns their membership or asks for a refund, we put another chink in the NEA's financial armor. (It's also important to stand with and support those teachers who take this action because the NEA union thugs won't like it, and some will try to intimidate the teachers).

The National Education Association: Emphasis on the Ass

A Union by Any Other Name

The National Everything Association

Where Do My NEA Dues Go?

NEA Hastens Death of American Education

THE NEA IS A LABOR UNION!

[Carry_Okie]

Defunding the union by both an IRS bust for tax evasion and cutting off the flow of political funds makes for a good first step. This is a war to save our kids. We don't have to be nice about it.

Here is my program:

Education Policy Components

1. Assist formation of corporate service associations. Offer State funding for local school districts to divest into smaller, more responsive institutions.
2. Use the private and home education market to develop and test learning tools and services. Private validation services would assess product performance against their claims. School boards would be free to select these products for use in public schools. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance.
3. Investigate teachers' unions for partisan activities using tax-exempt funds. Prosecute officers for fraud and tax evasion. Send them to jail.
4. Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision re Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988).
5. Eliminate regulations that stand in the way of charter schools.
6. Eliminate sole bargaining provisions or programs.
7. Institute merit pay, vouchers, educational tax credits, and educational savings accounts.
8. Veto any bill requiring home and private educators to conform to State teacher certification standards or any bill requiring State supervision of home schools.
9. Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting unfunded mandates. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
10. Support private scholarship programs that contain a promise of future employment, whereby students are directed into economically useful fields of study.
11. Allow top graduates of inner city schools to enroll at junior colleges for two years, free. Then let them enroll at the university level as sophomores on an equal footing.

[Carry_Okie]

Defunding the union by both an IRS bust for tax evasion and cutting off the flow of political funds makes for a good first step. This is a war to save our kids. We don't have to be nice about it.

Here is my program:

Education Policy Components

1. Assist formation of corporate service associations. Offer State funding for local school districts to divest into smaller, more responsive institutions.
2. Use the private and home education market to develop and test learning tools and services. Private validation services would assess product performance against their claims. School boards would be free to select these products for use in public schools. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance.
3. Investigate teachers' unions for partisan activities using tax-exempt funds. Prosecute officers for fraud and tax evasion. Send them to jail.
4. Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision re Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988).
5. Eliminate regulations that stand in the way of charter schools.
6. Eliminate sole bargaining provisions or programs.
7. Institute merit pay, vouchers, educational tax credits, and educational savings accounts.
8. Veto any bill requiring home and private educators to conform to State teacher certification standards or any bill requiring State supervision of home schools.
9. Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting unfunded mandates. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
10. Support private scholarship programs that contain a promise of future employment, whereby students are directed into economically useful fields of study.
11. Allow top graduates of inner city schools to enroll at junior colleges for two years, free. Then let them enroll at the university level as sophomores on an equal footing.