In Washington, the lobbyists of the National Education Association are reported to be threatening President Carter that if he doesn’t soon give them everything he promised in last year’s campaign, they will not endorse him for re-election. What they are demanding is: a separate Department of Education; expanded federal programs in vocational training; still more federal money for “inner city” schools; and power, all power, to the educationist ideologues. They mean to shape America’s collective future to their liking, and the devil take obscurants.
Late last spring, Mr. Richard L. Harris, Maricopa County (i.e., Phoenix, Arizona) School Superintendent, became so disturbed at the NEA’s power-drive that he sent out to many men of business a letter describing what the NEA means to do to America’s economy, and urging them to resist by promoting “career education” and the teaching of economics in schools. He enclosed with his letter a page of excerpts from an NEA document entitled “A Working Economy for Americans.”
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