DEA Board Members attend NEA RA in New Orleans

Each year about 10,000 NEA leaders gather at the Representative Assembly during the weeks surrounding July 4. This body has been praised as being the most democratic in the world. UEA sends more than 100 delegates. This year 13 of those delegates are members of DEA - Susan Firmage, Don Paver, Shelli Arthur, Jessica Dunn, Brian Ferguson, Richard Heath , Paulette Hopfenbeck, Bruce Illum, Holly Lee , Valerie Lindeman, Andrew Owen, Yvonne Speckman, and Jennifer Tannner. During the course of the Representative Assembly the NEA budget will be approved, the legislative agenda will be set, resolutions will be approved, and hundreds of new business items will be considered. DEA delegates to the RA have been asked to send comments while they are there which will appear on this blog. Check back to read first-hand comments on events during and following the RA.