Business Items

Using existing resources, the NEA will communicate its support for the universal right to access paid family and medical leave.  The NEA shall conduct a research study to compare family and medical leave policies in the U.S. to other countries and shall use their finding to develop a policy  brief on national paid family and medical leave. The NEA shall distribute its research finding to help state affiliates and locals strengthen their collective bargaining positions.

The NEA will take the lead in urging a school calendar revision for the 2020 presidential election and will encourage the closure of schools on election day so that members, locals, and districts can participate in a day of action where school will not be in session.

At future RAs the NEA will work with the host facility to convert more rest rooms near the floor of the Representative Assembly to gender neutral rest rooms for the duration of the RA. 

NEA, using existing resources, will publicly condemn the incarceration of immigrant children in concentration camps.

NEA shall form a committee with the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate how the lack of appropriate discipline is creating unsafe conditions in schools for both teachers and students.

The RA directs the NEA Board to consider guidelines to prevent the recommendations of any political candidate who takes and/or solicits support from the National Rifle Association. 

NEA will create a sub-category of ethnicity under the race category on NEA360 and conference registration sites to help the association better understand the ethnic makeup of our membership and make sure that the needs of all members are met. They will also provide a report to state leadership detailing the ethnicity breakdowns of our membership. 

Through existing vehicles, the NEA will bring awareness to the workload model approach for Specialized Instructional Support Personnel or SISPs (i.e., speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, social workers, library media specialists, and others) and create a policy brief in order to understand the need to decrease caseloads.  In addition, NEA will illustrate the benefits of appropriate SISPs caseloads/workload to its membership by publishing an article on existing forms of communication.

The NEA will call on the U.S. government to accept responsibility for the destabilization of Central American countries (including, but not limited to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua), and that this destabilization is a root cause of the recent increase of asylum seekers in the United States. 

NEA shall advocate for the inclusion of Frederick Douglas', "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" Oration is history and/or language arts classes.