RA Action:

News from the NEA Annual Meeting

Legislative Amendments

July 5, 2007

This page will be updated during the Representative Assembly, and will reflect daily Legislative Amendments exactly as they are printed in RA Today, our official convention newspaper.

Legislative Amendment 1

Adopted as Amended
Insert on page 14, line 13, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “Federal legislation mandating a test for drugs and alcohol of any driver involved in an accident while transporting students, within the mandated three-hour timeframe that is admissable in a criminal prosecution.”

Legislative Amendment 2

Adopted
Insert on page 3 under “Assessments” a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “Appropriate alternative options to standardized testing for measuring individual progress and proficiencies of students with special needs and/or limited English proficiency.”

Legislative Amendment 3

Adopted
Insert on page 10, line 50, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading,  “The promotion of articulation agreements between secondary and post-secondary institutions (as well as between different post-secondary institutions) when the content of those agreements has been determined by educators from both
sectors.”

Legislative Amendment 4

Adopted
Insert on page 24, line 31, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”

Legislative Amendment 5

Adopted
Insert on page 4, under Child Care and Early Childhood Education Development, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “Mandatory kindergarten attendance for
children.”

Legislative Amendment 6

Adopted  

Insert on page 18, line 26, a new “NEA supports” section with the following bullet: “legislation that advances the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain.”

Legislative Amendment 7

Defeated

Legislative Amendment 8

Adopted
Insert a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “legislation to require insurance companies to cover the diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss, including hearing aids and other devices.”

Legislative Amendment 9

Withdrawn

Legislative Amendment 10

Defeated

Legislative Amendment 11

Adopted as Modified
Insert a new bullet under “NEA opposes” reading, “requiring the diverting of Title I funds from classroom services to pay for choice transportation and supplemental educational services.”

Legislative Amendment 12

Adopted
Insert on page 16, line 27, under “NEA opposes” the words “performance appraisal, job assignment, ” following “education employee” so that the bullet would read, “use of student test scores as an evaluative measure for education employee performance appraisal, job assignment, job retention, promotion, tenure, salary increments, and/or school performance.”

Legislative Amendment 13

Defeated

Legislative Amendment 14

Adopted as Modified
Insert on page 22, line 36, under “NEA supports” the words “harassment, workplace” after “sexual” so the bullet would read “federal legislation designed to combat hate crimes, sexual harassment, workplace harassment, and violence against all individuals.”

Legislative Amendment 15

Adopted as Modified

Insert on page 22, line 36, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “protection of individuals’ rights against retaliation by superiors or coworkers after participating in due process regarding sexual harassment or workplace harassment.”

Legislative Amendment 16

Adopted
On page 23, line 36, amend the first bullet under “NEA opposes” by inserting “including the right of habeas corpus” at the end so the bullet would read, “Infringement of due process rights, including the right of habeas corpus.”

Legislative Amendment 17

Withdrawn

Legislative Amendment 18

Withdrawn

Legislative Amendment 19

Withdrawn