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Chief of Staff Kia Banks addressed the Board with an open letter containing an emotional plea:

This victory belongs to EVERY SINGLE ONE of YOU.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the plaintiffs. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion, which stated that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
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Republican President Trump is a danger to democracy and that automatically disqualified him from even being considered for an endorsement from the nation’s largest union.

That explanation came from Lily Eskelsen-Garcia, president of the 3.2-million-member National Education Association (NEA), in her keynote address to the union’s recent convention in Houston, held over the Independence Day weekend.

We don’t know about you, but we’re getting pretty mad at being taken for granted.