'Education, Not Separation': Teachers March to Shelter for Immigrant Youth [blogs.edweek.org]
By Madeline Will, Education Week, July 5, 2019. HOUSTON — On Independence Day, hundreds of educators marched to a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, chanting calls for freedom. The protesters are delegates to the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union. The NEA is holding its annual representative assembly here July 4-7. But the protest was not sanctioned by the NEA—it was a grassroots march organized by educators, who were horrified to learn their...