Title: National Education Association - Wikipedia
Headings: National Education Association
National Education Association
Contents
Structure and governance
History
Founding
Mergers
Membership trends
Notable members
Composition
Funding
Read Across America Day
Policy positions
Political activities
Legislation opposed and supported
Criticism
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: In 2007, at the 150th anniversary of its founding, NEA membership had grown to 3.2 million. However, by July 2012, USA Today reported that NEA had lost nearly 0.3% of their members each year since 2010. Following the Supreme Court's 2018 Janus v. AFSCME case, which ended the compulsion of non-union, public employees to pay agency fees, or what are colloquially known as 'fair-share fees,' the NEA's total membership and agency fee payers dropped from 3,074,841 on its Nov. 28, 2017, report to 2,975,933 in its Aug. 31, 2019, report, a total loss of 98,908 dues payers. Notable members
C. Louise Boehringer, in 1913 she spoke at their convention in San Francisco
Della Prell Darknell Campbell
William George Carr, Executive Director of the NEA from 1952 to 1967
Sabra R. Greenhalgh, life member of the NEA, elected a delegate to represent northern California at the annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, in 1931
Kate Wetzel Jameson, member
Vesta C. Muehleisen, member
Caroline Haven Ober, member
Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States
Mary Yost, vice-president of the Western Division of Department of Deans of Women
Composition
For most of the 20th century, the NEA represented the public school administration in small towns and rural areas. The state organizations played a major role in policy formation for the NEA. After 1957, the NEA reoriented itself to primarily represent the teachers in those districts, rather than just the administrators. It came to resemble the rival American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was a labor union for teachers in larger cities. The success of the AFT in raising wages through strike activity encouraged the NEA to undertake similar activities. In the 1970s, more militant politics came to characterize the NEA. It created the NEA Political Action Committee to engage in local election campaigns, and it began endorsing political candidates who supported its policy goals.