RA Action:

News from the NEA Annual Meeting

Legislative Amendments

July 6, 2008

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 26, line 9, a new bullet reading “NEA opposes funding privatized paramilitary organizations with public tax money.”

Legislative Amendment 2

Defeated

Legislative Amendment 3

Withdrawn

Legislative Amendment 4

Adopted

Insert on page 14, line 43, a new bullet reading, “NEA supports legislation that requires examination of Genetically Modified (GM) food safety and adequate labeling.”

Legislative Amendment 5

Adopted as amended

On page 10 (postsecondary education):

—amend the ninth bullet (on line 40) under “NEA supports” by inserting “and other” after the word “minority,”  so the bullet would read, “diversity in enrollments through programs that facilitate minority and other students’ entrance into and completion of postsecondary education regardless of their immigration status” and

—insert a new tenth bullet (on line 42) under “NEA supports” reading “access to higher education and in-state tuition for in-state residents regardless of immigration status, as well as paths to legalization for undocumented high school graduates.”

Legislative Amendment 6

Adopted

Insert on page 18, line 41, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading “strengthening private defined benefit plans through greater funding flexibility, including but not limited to, extending the plan funding period in excess of seven years.”

Legislative Amendment 7

Adopted

Insert on page 25, line 51, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “legislation to make war-profiteering illegal.”

Legislative Amendment 8

Adopted

Insert on page 11, line 17, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “abolishing all student loan predatory lending practices.”

Legislative Amendment 9

Adopted as amended

Insert on page 11, line 18, a new bullet under “NEA supports” reading, “loan terms offered by lending institutions that provide for a lifetime rate cap increase not to exceed 2%.”

Legislative Amendment 10

Adopted

Insert on page 16, line 39, the words “or incentive pay” after “merit pay.”

Legislative Amendment 11

Adopted as amended

Insert on page 3, line 29, a new bullet under “NEA opposes” reading “mandatory and/or coerced participation of students in the administration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Exam.”

Legislative Amendment 12

Adopted

Insert on page 16, line 31, under “NEA supports” a new bullet, “employment protection for school employees who act to protect students expressing their first amendment rights.”

Legislative Amendment 13

Adopted as amended

Insert on page 22, line 35, under “NEA supports” a new bullet, “protection of First Amendment rights for all people, including students, with the right to engage in robust and responsible discussion of issues in school-sponsored student media.”

Legislative Amendment 14

Adopted

Insert on page 9, line 22 (and renumber the remaining positions), under “NEA supports, “a new bullet, “federal assistance to implement sustainable school construction practices that provide healthy, productive, energy-saving and cost-effective buildings.”

Legislative Amendment 15

Adopted

Insert on page 13, line 48, after the word “ratio” add “of one school nurse to every 750 or fewer students.”