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New Business Item 49 (Referred to the Appropriate Committee)
The NEA will convene a task force to collect and analyze data and metrics about environmental pollution and its impact on America’s students and educational communities….
Data collection will include, but is not limited to, the following:
1. Data outlining the impact of environmental pollution on students in impoverished communities and/or Indigenous communities of color.
2. Data outlining the long-term health conditions suffered by communities impacted by environmental pollution (i.e., Flint, Michigan).
3. Data outlining the dollars spent on special education programs and supports for students who have been impacted as a result of environmental pollution.
4. A comparative analysis of impacted communities and neighboring non-impacted affluent communities in the same geographic region.
New Business Item 51 (Referred to the Appropriate Committee)
NEA will:
1. Use existing digital communication tools to educate members and the general public about the history, culture, and struggles of Palestinians, including the detention and abuse of children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
2. Use existing digital communication to publish an article in NEA Today recognizing the work done by our members fighting for the rights of Palestinian children and families.
3. Publicly advocate for Palestinian children to have access to a quality education while supporting their right to a safe and just future in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international standards.
4. Highlight the need for state and local affiliates to honor and protect the rights of members advocating for Palestinian human rights.
New Business Item 54 (Referred to the Appropriate Committee)
The National Education Association from this point forward will no longer hold its Representative Assemblies or any of its national conferences in any state that openly supports voter suppression, including states that revoke voting rights for people who are convicted of felonies who have completed their sentence.
New Business Item 58 (Referred to the Appropriate Committee)
NEA will generate a “Greenwood and Beyond” initiative. The goal is to make sure all students learn what happened not just in Tulsa, but in several Black townships during “The Red Summer” of 1921. Furthermore, NEA will work with historians and educators to create an online resource database that will store curriculum for “Greenwood and Beyond.” This database will provide educators with information that can be used to educate students in the factual account of what happened during that period.
New Business Item 64 (Referred to the Appropriate Committee)
The NEA will educate its members, using existing electronic media, about the positive effects that having a tax-supported, single-payer health care plan for all residents of the United States, its territories, and the Commonwealth of Puerto R
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