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The NEA Fund for Children and Public Education got a boost from delegates to WEAC’s 2008 Representative Assembly, as 578 – or 63% – of delegates attending made contributions totaling $26,137.
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The commitment of members to the fund was praised by NEA Executive Committee member Christy Levings. “We have to make sure the voices of small contributors are brought together and heard,” Levings said in addressing the delegates. “It’s up to Americans like us to say, ‘We don’t make very much as educators, but we’re willing to pull together.”
Of the total of $26,137 pledged, $9,433 represents new continuous payroll deductions from 161 WEAC members and staff.
Levings said the funding will help efforts to turn around policies that harm education, such as the so-called “No Child Left Behind” law, funding for which is $70.9 billion dollars short from what was promised. Levings said the support for the NEA fund brings the promise of hope.
“Whenever we look at the previous work of WEAC, we know we’re on the right track,” Levings said.
The NEA Fund for Children and Public Education, NEA’s national political action committee, has worked to elect pro-public education congressional and presidential candidates since 1972.
Posted May 7, 2008
