Comments on: Official NEA Membership Numbers for 2009-10

By: The Facade Crumbles for the Teachers’ Unions

The Facade Crumbles for the Teachers’ Unions — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:26:20 +0000

[...] are being laid off nationwide (except, apparently, in Wisconsin). No wonder the Union has lost 39,000 active members over the last year. As I said back in May: Why do you think they were so insistent on card check? [...]

By: NEA Convention 2011: A New Reality « The Greenroom

NEA Convention 2011: A New Reality « The Greenroom — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:22:59 +0000

[...] a surprise to readers of this blog that NEA has a $14 million budget shortfall, or that it has lost more than 39,000 active members. Pringle stated that the deficit is closer to $17 million due to increased costs to the union’s [...]

By: Mike Antonucci

Mike Antonucci — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:59:27 +0000

I don’t have the figures state-by-state, but nationally 1.9 million NEA members are teachers and other certificated professionals (guidance counselors, speech pathologists, etc.) and 340,000 are education support. All numbers are full-time equivalent. The number of human bodies are, naturally, higher.

By: Jim Stegall

Jim Stegall — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:04:23 +0000

Mike, is there any way to break down those numbers by actual classroom teachers vs. other education support personnel? I seem to recall that NEA used to be more specific about that, but lately it’s been very difficult to see how many members are really actual educators (classroom teachers and administrators), as opposed to others who happen to work at a school. I’m guessing that here in North Carolina there must be around 4-5K of these ‘others’ in their figures.