2009 NEA Representative Assembly
Close to 10,000 delegates attend annual business meeting in San Diego

Nearly 10,000 leaders and delegates from state and local affiliates of the National Education Association—including 170 from Nevada— convened in San Diego to conduct the 3.2 million-member Association’s business. The various constituencies and groups have been meeting since June 26 and the Representative Assembly takes place July 2-6.

In addition to discussing, debating and voting on critical issues facing public education, the teachers and education support professionals will also set Association policy for the coming year. This year's gathering will be the first presided over by Association leadership elected during the 2008 RA: NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, Vice President Lily Eskelsen and Secretary-Treasurer Becky Pringle.

The RA is the highest decision-making body within the over 3.2 million-member NEA and with nearly 10,000 delegates, it is also the world's largest democratic deliberative body.

Want to Stay Connected?

This year, NEA offers Twitter feeds — short electronic messages — that allow you to keep track of Representative Assembly (RA) event and get the inside scoop from NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. Via Twitter, you can follow these updates online or even have them delivered to your mobile phone.

If you're new to Twitter, go to www.twitter.com to learn more and sign up -- it's free and takes less than a minute. Then visit these three official NEA RA Twitter feeds and just click "follow" for any or all of them:

www.twitter.com/RAToday: The Twitter feed for RA Today, the official publication of the 2009 RA, provides up-to-the-minute coverage of RA events starting June 26.

www.twitter.com/NEAPresident: NEA Pres. Dennis Van Roekel offers his impressions of the 2009 RA through his personal Twitter feed starting July 1.

For more information on the RA and Twitter, go to www.nea.org/ra, which will remain the central online source for RA news and information.