NEA Delegates Reject Merger Plan, But Door to Unity With AFT Still Open Delegates to the National Education Association's annual meeting soundly rejected a plan July 5 that would have paved the way for the union's merger with the American Federation of Teachers. J uly 18.
Unity is far from a dead issue for the nation's two major teacher organizations.
Read reactions to the votes and look ahead to what's next in unifying the two groups. Peer sexual harassment is essentially the companion issue to the high court's ruling in June that set a new standard for holding districts liable for a teacher's sexual harassment of a student. After guiding the College Board through more than a decade of transition, President Donald M. Stewart has announced that he will resign from the post next year. Mr. Stewart plans to remain in the position until September 1999, when he will become a visiting scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of government at Harvard University, where he now teaches part time. Scholars Seek New Solutions to the 'Achievement Gap' Alarmed by the widening gap in achievement between black and white students over the past 10 years, a group of leading scholars offers in a new book their suggestions for how to close it.