Public Education: This is what democracy looks like: NEA leader says social justice key to teacher unionism

Public Education: This is what democracy looks like: NEA leader says social justice key to teacher unionism: "Covering a range of issues including voter suppression laws, Citizens United, inequality and poverty, immigration, stop and frisk police practices, and racial profiling, Stocks explained how the union has begun to deepen its ties to national civil rights and faith organizations to act against injustice.

At one point in his 28-minute speech after explaining the problem of racial profiling Stocks asked members to think about three questions:

“Does racial profiling start in our schools?”
“Does the pipeline to prison for minority students begin in our schools?”
“And if it does, what are we going to do about it?”

He recounted his and other NEA members’ participation in a recent march in New York City against the NYC police policy of “stop and frisk.”"

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