NEA Backs Dukakis, Sees End to Era of ‘Teacher Bashing’
The 1.9- million-member National Education Assn. today endorsed Democrat Michael S. Dukakis, who the union’s chief predicted would end “eight years of teacher bashing and budget cutting.”
NEA President Mary Hatwood Futrell said she also looks forward to “substantial increases in federal funding for public education” in a Dukakis Administration.
Dukakis was the choice of 86% of about 6,200 union activists who returned mail ballots. Republican George Bush got the rest, 14%.
Four years earlier, Walter F. Mondale got an 88% mandate, while 12% of the teacher delegates favored no endorsement. Ronald Reagan was not on the union’s ballot in 1984.
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