Nation’s largest labor union: We want 2016 hopefuls talking about schools

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Washington Post

By Lyndsey Layton

The National Education Association, the largest U.S. labor union, is pushing to make public schools a front-burner domestic issue throughout the 2016 presidential race, union leaders said Wednesday.

“We have 3 million members who want desperately to know what the candidates have to say to really, seriously improve public education,” NEA President Lily Eskelsen García told reporters. “We intend to activate those 3 million members, the parents, even the students.”

The union, which represents one out of every 100 Americans, has begun its presidential endorsement process, the earliest point it has engaged in a presidential campaign cycle, García said.

Although only one candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), has declared his intention to run for the White House, the NEA has sent questionnaires to 19 “viable” candidates to begin the vetting process for an endorsement, said Carrie Pugh, the union’s political director.

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[jwirr]

1. Good. Hopefully this will stop the Rs in their tracks when it comes to cuts in the next 2 years. We

need to do this with more of our issues.

[Cryptoad]

2. Oh yea they are talking about schools.....

about how to shut them down, defund them. Only the rich are deserving of an education. the rest need to clean toilets.

[midnight]

3. I will be interested in watching this vetting process.