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If you ran a liberal political, advocacy or research organization and you went to the National Education Association last year with your hand out, chances are good you came away with a fistful of dollars. An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2006-07 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed $12 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups. The total nearly tripled its contributions from the previous fiscal year. The expenditures include a host of payments connected with ballot initiatives in both November 2006 and the first eight months of 2007. They range from $2.3 million to Citizens for Education, who campaigned in favor of a school funding initiative in Michigan, down to several smaller grants to groups such as Rainbow/PUSH, FairTest, Amnesty International, Sierra Club and Human Rights Campaign. Here is an alphabetic list of the recipients of NEA's largesse, with relevant web links: ACORN - $218,452 American Council on Education - $10,000 American Library Association - $5,000 American Rights at Work - $5,000 Americans United for Change - $350,000 Amnesty International - $7,500 Arizona Minimum Wage Coalition - $28,000 Arizona State University Office for Research & Sponsored Projects Administration - $250,000 Asian American Justice Center - $5,000 Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund - $6,000 Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies - $5,000 Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance - $5,000 Bloggerpower.org - $10,000 Business and Professional Women/USA - $5,000 Campaign for America's Future - $40,000 CAP Charitable Foundation - $5,000 Celebrate ME - $50,000 Center for Community Change - $25,000 Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research - $8,000 Center for Law and Education - $50,000 Center for Policy Alternatives - $10,000 Center for Teaching Quality - $277,485 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association - $81,500 Children's Defense Fund - $10,000 The Citizenship Project - $25,000 Citizens for Education - $2,316,000 Citizens United to Protect Our Public Safety, Schools and Communities - $550,000 Citizens Who Support Maine's Public Schools - $195,000 Coloradans for Excellent Schools - $792,000 Coloradans for a Fair Minimum Wage - $20,000 Coloradans for Responsible Reform - $50,000 Committee for Education Funding - $18,902 Committee to Protect Our Children's Legacy - $560,000 Communities for Quality Education - $273,000 Communities United to Strengthen America - $150,000 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. - $40,000 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute - $90,825 Conserving Arizona's Future - $50,000 Creating Arizona's Future - $425,000 Democratic GAIN - $10,000 Democratic Leadership Council - $40,150 East Meadow Jewish Center - $5,000 Economic Policy Institute - $150,000 Educational Testing Service - $21,134 Everybody Wins DC - $8,000 FairTest - $35,000 Ford's Theatre - $10,000 Funniest Celebrity in Washington - $10,000 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - $6,000 Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network - $130,000 Give Missourians A Raise - $200,000 Give Nevada A Raise - $25,000 Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice - $300,000 Harvard Labor and Worklife Program - $5,000 Harvard University Office for Sponsored Research - $50,000 Healthy Schools Network - $5,000 Human Rights Campaign - $15,000 Invest In Our Kids' Education - $720,000 James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy - $15,000 Japanese American Citizens League - $5,000 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies - $15,000 Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - $15,000 Latina Initiative - $25,000 Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - $15,000 League of Rural Voters - $15,000 League of United Latin American Citizens - $5,000 Learning First Alliance - $54,240 Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - $15,300 NAACP - $56,500 National Alliance of Black School Educators - $11,000 National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education - $5,500 National Association for Bilingual Education - $5,000 National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans - $5,000 National Association of Hispanic Journalists - $5,000 National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund - $10,000 National Association of Legislative and Political Specialists for Education - $14,021 National Baptist Voice - $15,450 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - $8,000 National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training - $10,000 National Coalition on Black Civic Participation - $10,000 National Conference of Black Mayors - $10,000 National Conference of State Legislatures - $42,275 National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education - $348,585 National Council of La Raza - $14,700 National Hispanic Media Coalition - $5,000 National League of Cities - $40,000 National Partnership for Women and Families - $5,000 National Parent Teachers Association - $5,000 National Public Pension Coalition - $135,000 National Staff Development Council - $70,500 National Urban League - $10,180 National Women's Law Center - $10,000 Nebraskans Against 423 - $500,000 Nebraskans for the Good Life - $250,000 Not In Montana - $310,000 Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage - $680,000 Organizations Concerned About Rural Education - $5,000 Partnership for 21st Century Skills - $55,803 People for the American Way - $275,000 Project New West - $86,000 Rainbow/PUSH Coalition - $10,000 Rebuild America's Schools - $20,000 Second District Religious, Educational Charitable Development Project - $5,000 SEIU - $15,000 Sierra Club - $50,000 Southeast Asia Resource Action Center - $5,000 Southern Christian Leadership Conference - $12,771 Task Force Foundation - $10,000 Teachers Count - $50,000 U.S. Action - $100,000 U.S. Fund for UNICEF - $7,500 Vote Early Denver - $25,000 Women's Campaign Forum - $15,000 Women's Voices Women Vote - $75,000 Workers Independent News Service - $5,000 Working America - $150,000 EIA will have further revelations from NEA's disclosure report in the weeks to come.
If you ran a liberal political, advocacy or research organization and you went to the National Education Association last year with your hand out, chances are good you came away with a fistful of dollars. An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2006-07 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed $12 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups. The total nearly tripled its contributions from the previous fiscal year.
The expenditures include a host of payments connected with ballot initiatives in both November 2006 and the first eight months of 2007. They range from $2.3 million to Citizens for Education, who campaigned in favor of a school funding initiative in Michigan, down to several smaller grants to groups such as Rainbow/PUSH, FairTest, Amnesty International, Sierra Club and Human Rights Campaign.
Here is an alphabetic list of the recipients of NEA's largesse, with relevant web links:
EIA will have further revelations from NEA's disclosure report in the weeks to come.
From The Education Intelligence Agency.
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