NEA Endorses Obama’s Bid for Second Term

Wall Street Journal

July 4, 2011

NEA Endorses Obama’s Bid for Second Term

By STEPHANIE BANCHERO

CHICAGO—The nation’s largest teachers union voted Monday to endorse President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election bid, during a raucous convention that highlighted widespread unhappiness with the president’s education policies.

 The vote, during the annual convention of the National Education Association, was supported by 72% of the union’s representative assembly. The assembly is the top decision-making body for the union and the endorsement allows the NEA, which represents 3.2 million teachers, to start campaigning for Mr. Obama.

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