The yearly NEA convention was replete with the usual bogeymen, rah-rah talk, weird new business items and a bit more angst than usual.
This last year should have been a pip for the National Education Association. Antoni Scalia’s death killed Friedrichs and kept forced unionism alive and well in half the country. And the inevitable Hillary victory in November was going to give the teachers union a coveted seat at the executive table.
But with Janus v AFSCME, a follow-up to Friedrichs, having a good shot at being heard and passing muster with SCOTUS next year and the union’s worst nightmare being elected over darling Hillary, things are not so rosy in the union kingdom. The resulting angst at the NEA convention, which wrapped up last week in Boston, was palpable.
NEA President Lily Eskelsen García, who, in a prior talk, accused Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of being…