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NEA President Becky Pringle addresses delegates at 2022 NEA-Retired Annual Meeting.
Parents and voters explicitly rejected extreme politicians who engaged in the politics of division, politicizing our classrooms, banning books, dragging their culture wars into our public schools, and pushing failed privatization schemes
Quote by: Becky Pringle , NEA President
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Overwhelmingly, voters chose candidates with a clear vision of how to support public schools, and rejected extremists who sought politicize classrooms and defund education.
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