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National Education Association
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US teachers' trade union
NEA

Full name
National Education Association of the United States
Founded
1857; 164 years ago
( 1857)
Members
~2,290,000 (2020)
Affiliation
Education International
Key people
Becky Pringle, president
Office location
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Country
United States
Website
nea .org
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General meeting, National Education Association on July 3, 1916, at Madison Square Garden, New York City
The National Education Association ( NEA) is the largest labor union and the largest white-collar representative in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. The NEA has just under 2.3 million members and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The NEA had a budget of more than $341 million for the 2012–2013 fiscal year. Becky Pringle is the NEA's current president. As per the NEA website: " Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world." The NEA, originally on the conservative side of U.S. politics, by the 1970s emerged as a factor in modern American liberalism. While the NEA has a stated position of "non-partisan", it almost exclusively supports the Democratic Party. Conservatives, libertarians, and parents' rights groups have criticized the NEA's progressive positions.