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America's Education Issues Receive National Stage at National Education Association's Annual Representative Assembly

Posted on: Monday, 2 July 2007, 18:17 CDT

Education issues in America received a national stage today as thousands of state education leaders from around the country attended the National Education Association's Representative Assembly (RA) in Philadelphia, Penn., being held from July 2 to 5.

The keynote address, given by NEA president Reg Weaver, set the tone for the 2007 Representative Assembly, NEA's highest decision-making body. Over the course of four days, more than 9,000 delegates will debate the vital issues that affect American public education and set Association policy and activities for the next year.

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This year's major focus was the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind act. Five years after the president signed NCLB, the controversial legislations continue to impact educators, students and schools across the country.

The Representative Assembly is especially significant this year because NEA is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The Association was founded in Philadelphia by 43 educators devoted to advancing public education. Through the decades, NEA has taken on enormous challenges and grown to 3.2 million members.

In addition to marking a major milestone, the event presents an opportunity to reflect on past accomplishments and focus on the critical work that must be done in the future to ensure great public schools for every child.

It also provides the federal government with an opportunity to significantly overhaul NCLB in a way that will improve the teaching profession.

NEA has outlined several priorities for the reauthorization of NCLB, including using more than a one-time standardized test score to measure student success, reducing class size to help students learn, and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in America's public school classrooms.

Additionally, all of the major Democratic Presidential candidates addressed the Assembly to discuss the future of public education.

During His Key Note Speech, President Reg Weaver discussed:

Class Size -- investing in smaller class size helps student learn. Less is more when it comes to student success and class size;

Teacher Quality-- teacher quality makes all the difference. More hoops and hurdles won't assure highly qualified teachers in every classroom

Making sure that students start school ready to learn

For more information, visit www.nea.org

Source: Business Wire

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