{"id":1274,"date":"2008-04-03T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2008-04-03T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:09:57","slug":"an-nea-member-at-the-head-of-aft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"An NEA member at the head of AFT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all the discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/03\/education\/03weingarten.html?ex=1364875200&amp;en=c162007e1a5543db&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Randi Weingarten&#8217;s imminent rise to the AFT presidency<\/a> is one small detail that hasn&#8217;t yet been discussed: UFT&#8217;s state affiliate NYSUT is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysut.org\/cps\/rde\/xchg\/nysut\/hs.xsl\/about.htm\">merged and affiliated with both NEA and AFT<\/a>. Which makes Weingarten an NEA member.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue whether Weingarten is a delegate to the NEA convention this summer, but that would be interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the discussion about Randi Weingarten&#8217;s imminent rise to the AFT presidency is one small detail that hasn&#8217;t yet been discussed: UFT&#8217;s state affiliate NYSUT is now merged and affiliated with both NEA and AFT. Which makes Weingarten an NEA member. I have no clue whether Weingarten is a delegate to the NEA convention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}