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NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” � Fred Klonsky's blog #NEARA10

NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” � Fred Klonsky's blog

NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top”

JULY 4, 2010
by preaprez
The gap just got wider between the United States Department of Education and it’s Secretary Arne Duncan on the one side and America’s teachers on the other. Never has their been such hostility between the NEA, a reliable Democratic constituency, and a Democratic Party controlled USDE.
While earlier New Business Items had addressed problems with Race to the Top in general terms, NBI 2 was most clear and direct:

“While the National Education Association Representative Assembly supports and appreciates the significant increase in federal funding for education, the NEA takes a position of no confidence in the US