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...NEA President John Ryor finds the integration of the handicapped in the nation's classrooms "as American as baseball and hot dogs." But, he warns, "vigilance must be the watchword if mainstreaming is to provide a favorable learning experience both for the handicapped and regular students and if the teachers are not to wind up as fall guys...
Rich and Aggressive. If the NEA'S track record is any indication, Carter can expect an effective campaign effort mounted on his behalf. In the 1974 elections, the NEA claims to have aided in the election of 80% of the congressional candidates it endorsed-250 out of 310. This year NEA-PAC, the political action committee of the union, plans to pour in more than $700,000 to its candidates' campaigns (up from $30,000 in 1972, the year NEA-PAC was founded). The NEA can also furnish campaign workers: there are, after...
...NEA's state and local affiliates have also been successful backing school-board members, city councilmen, state legislators, governors and congressmen. California Teachers Association funds went to all but three of the 54 Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
What do the teachers want from their candidates? Until the mid-'60s the NEA scorned the need for collective bargaining. But now more than a million teachers enjoy some degree of collective bargaining, and the union is asking legislators to extend that right to all public employees. The NEA wants a Secretary of Education in the Cabinet and would like to see the federal share of funding for public schools increase from the present 7.9% of the total cost to 33%, or $22 billion...
According to critics, such an increase in federal funding would serve mainly to establish "a full-employment program for teachers." The newly militant NEA has other detractors. Complains California Assemblyman John Vasconellos: "We never hear about kids, only about teachers...