By Doug Cunningham

The National Education Association, America’s biggest union, is working in close coordination now with the AFL-CIO on politics. The NEA’s Karen White says that unprecedented coordination on the ground in Kentucky proved to be a powerful synthesis and more is in store for 2008.

[White]: “It really is the beginning of the NEA's new and expanding political program. In 2008, the NEA has dedicated over $30 million to its national political program and will be undertaking one of our largest grassroots mobilization efforts in history."

White, formerly the Political Director of Emily’s List, says the 3.2 million member NEA is retooling its political mobilization efforts to become even more active and more effective.