RA Action:

News from the NEA Annual Meeting

July 7, 2008

Resolutions Amendments, New Resolutions, and Set-Asides:

Delegates adopted the report of the 2007-08 resolutions committee as recommended with the additional actions taken below.

NEA Resolutions 2008-2009 ( 745KB, 102 pp)

New A. District Consolidation/Deconsolidation Supplementary Report

Adopted as Printed

B-41. Fine Arts Education Supplementary Report

Adopted as Printed

New B. Expanding Student Graduation Options Preliminary Report

Adopted as Amended

Amended by addition on page 34 of the Preliminary Report, line 15, “New B. Expanding Student Graduation and PromotionOptions.” Amended by addition on lines 16-17, “public high schools should expand graduation and promotion options for students.” Amended by substitution on line 20, “in determining[promotion and graduation] graduation and promotion requirements.”

C-2. Nutrition Preliminary Report

Adopted as Amended

Amended by addition on page 35 of the Preliminary Report, lines 14-16, “The Association also supports nutrition programs that are regulated by uniform standards, readily accessible, medically correct for students and employees who have special, documented dietary needs, and are supported by public funds.”

C-18. Environmentally Safe Schools Preliminary Report

Adopted as Amended

Amended by addition on page 38 of the Preliminary Report, line 25, “Further, school districts must complete corrective actions to eliminate the problems and report results in a timely manner.”

D-1. The Teaching Profession Supplementary Report

Adopted as Printed
Amendment Referred to Resolutions Committee

Amend by addition on page 11 of the Supplementary Report, line 27, of new letters (a) and (b):

    “a. Cares about each student and is able to establish an appropriate, professional relationship with each student that communicates caring

    b. Is organized, efficient, and fair in the use of resources and time and allows students a voice in classroom management, procedures, and processes.”

F-47. Medication and Medical Services in Schools Supplementary Report

Adopted as Printed

New F. Contingent Faculty and Professional Staff Protection Preliminary Report

Adopted as Printed

I-15. Family Planning Preliminary Report

Adopted as Printed

New I. Right of Redress for Descendants of Slavery Supplementary Report

Adopted as Printed
Amendment Referred to Resolutions Committee

Amend by addition on page 19 of the Supplementary Report, line 33, by substitution, “Right of Redress for [Descendants of Slavery] Deprivation of Human Rights.” Amend by addition on page 19 of the Supplementary Report, lines 35-36, “the nation’s decision to allow and the acceptance of ownership of labor, the practice of violating treaties, slaughter of innocents, displacement of indigenous peoples—including the forced relocation and the re-education of children—were morally flawed. Amend by addition, line 37, “descendants of those who served in bondage, or were deprived of life, land, language, resources, and culture, possess just cause to seek redress.”