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NEA reacts to GOP, Tea Party congressional victories
- 11-03-2010
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
The National Education Association invested some $40 million in the 2010 midterm elections, which ushered in major Republican victories at the state and federal levels. The union was able to help out endangered Democrats, including Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Harry Reid of Nevada, but saw other longtime Democratic allies, such as Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, defeated. So now what? Well, the NEA is expecting that incoming GOP leaders and the Obama administration will continue to talk about the need for a bipartisan reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, said Kim Anderson, the union's director of government relations. (more…)
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