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NEA challenged on political outlays - Teacher's union fields "army of campaign workers"*** As much as one-third of the tax-exempt National Education Association's yearly $271 million income goes toward politically related activities, according to union documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
The documents show that the 2.7 million-member teacher's union spends millions annually to field what one critic calls an "army of campaign workers," while maintaining that it spends nothing on politics.
The NEA has avoided millions of dollars in federal and D.C. income taxes every year for political activities that are not tax-exempt, says the Landmark Legal Foundation, a Herndon-based public-interest group that has asked the IRS to investigate and recoup the money.***
Vouchers will help public schools - Fear loss of MONEY - But what of "for the children?"*** The study found that public schools whose students were eligible for vouchers made significantly larger test-score gains than other public schools in the state. Even public schools that had only one failing grade but faced the threat of vouchers if they failed again made exceptional improvements. Similar low-scoring schools that did not face the prospect of voucher competition, however, did not make similar gains. In Florida, vouchers have provided public schools with powerful incentives to improve. If schools don't improve, they stand to lose students - and the funding they generate - to other schools.***
"persistently dangerous" - School-safety rankings - or just black marks?*** At the heart of the discrepancy may well be a reluctance on the part of educators to report campus crime fully. A survey by the National Association of School Resource Officers found that 89 percent of school police believe crime is already underreported. "It's the scarlet letter in education today," says Mr. Trump. "Administrators have said to me privately that they would rather be academically failing than be a dangerous school."***
The NEA's Q & A*** If urban-area teachers answer students' questions as carelessly and erroneously as the president of the National Education Association (NEA) answered the questions of his C-SPAN host and the network's callers, it becomes clear why big-city public-school students perform so poorly.
Welcomed by C-SPAN on Aug. 31, in recognition of the beginning of the new school year, Reg Weaver earned an "F" for turning in such a self-serving and politicized performance. He acknowledged that the NEA was in fact a "special-interest group." But Mr. Weaver then insisted, against all evidence to the contrary, that the NEA's "special interest happens to be children and public education."
Indeed, when the C-SPAN host began the interview by asking Mr. Weaver about the current "state of American public schools," the labor leader launched into a lengthy monologue that confined itself to the concerns of teachers and their profession. He said the teaching corps is "more prepared today that what they have been in years," and said that "over 50 percent have master's degrees." He neglected, however, to tell viewers that, while the teachers may have advanced education degrees, there remain shortages of math and science teachers.***
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