NEA, Largest Teacher Union, Endorses Gore
WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest teachers’ union endorsed Vice President Al Gore for president Friday, saying he “understands what children need to start school ready to learn.”
The endorsement by the 2.5-million-member National Education Assn. was the second of its kind in three days for Gore, who is running against former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley for the Democratic presidential nomination.
On Tuesday, the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the country, announced its support for Gore.
In its endorsement, the NEA praised Gore for supporting full funding of Head Start, a preschool program for poor children, as well as for expanded preschool and after-school programs.
On Thursday, Gore was endorsed by some of New York’s leading environmentalists--Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chief prosecutor for Riverkeeper, a group that fights pollution in the Hudson River, and environmental lawyer Larry Rockefeller.
Bradley, meanwhile, had won the endorsement of another environmental group, Friends of the Earth.
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