The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, announced plans Thursday to mobilize its more than three million members in an effort to influence the 2020 election.
On a call with reporters, NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcìa unveiled the organization’s “Strong Public Schools 2020” campaign, an effort to get its members “to be part of the ground game in the 2020 campaign and play a major role in choosing next President of the United States.”
“The public sees us as that trusted voice about what’s going on in their communities because they know we love someone else’s kids,” Garcìa said. “We are taking that trusted, influential voice into this campaign.”