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Alabama Education Association building in Montgomery. The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is a statewide professional organization that represents public school employees in the state of Alabama. It is based in the state capital of Montgomery. The AEA is the largest education association in Alabama and is an advocate organization that leads ...
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. [2] 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.
Alabama Association of School Boards; Alabama Commission on Higher Education; Alabama Council for Technology in Education; Alabama Education Association; Alabama State Board of Education; Alabama State Department of Education; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
The National Education Association of the United States Committee on Secondary School Studies known as the NEA Committee of Ten was a working group of educators that convened in 1892. They were charged with taking stock of current practices in American high schools and making recommendations for future practice.
She taught for 25 years in the Decatur School System, and served two terms as the president of the Alabama Education Association (AEA) from 1983-1984 and 1995-1997. [3] She won various teaching awards including Teacher of the Year; a Teacher Hall of Fame nominee; honored by the Alabama Jaycees as Alabama’s Outstanding Young Educator; and Good ...
Public primary and secondary education in Alabama is under the overview of the Alabama State Board of Education as well as local oversight by 67 county school boards and 60 city boards of education. Together, 1,541 individual schools provide education for 743,364 elementary and secondary students.
The ATA and NEA began to consider a merger in the early 1960s, as a result of changes in education and the civil rights movement. In 1963, the ATA voted a "qualified recommendation" in favor of merger, which was completed in 1966. [7] [8] The name of the merged association remained the National Education Association. [6]
On July 4, 2008, she was elected NEA vice-president, [8] and she was re-elected at the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly with over 90% of the vote. [9] At the 2014 NEA Representative Assembly in Denver, Colorado, she was elected NEA President [10] [11] and served as NEA president until September 1, 2020, when she was succeeded by Becky Pringle.