Neb. teachers union backs Obama

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110627/NEWS01/706279897/0#neb-teachers-union-backs-obama

Published Monday June 27, 2011

By Joe Dejka
World-Herald Staff Writer


The board of directors of Nebraska's state teachers union has voted to support President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.

Nancy Fulton, the president-elect of the Nebraska State Education Association, will carry that vote with her to Chicago this week, where the national union will consider a similar resolution of support.

The National Education Association is poised to become the first major labor union to endorse Obama for a second term.

“I anticipate that will be approved after a lot of heated debate,” said Fulton, 57, an elementary school teacher from Wilber-Clatonia schools who takes the helm of the state union Aug. 1. “In the end I think President Obama is supportive of education.”

The endorsement vote will take place at the NEA's Representative Assembly in Chicago from Saturday through July 5. The assembly is a policy-setting meeting of about 9,000 delegates representing local and state affiliates, teachers, education support professionals, higher education faculty, and student and retired members nationwide. The Nebraska association is a state affiliate of the NEA.

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