National teachers union pours $450,000 into Jefferson Parish School Board election
Source: The Times-Picayune
By Jessica Williams
The American Federation of Teachers has spent almost $450,000 on the Jefferson Parish School Board elections, recent campaign finance reports show. That's more than all individual candidate contributions combined.
The union's local political action committee calls itself the AFT Committee for School Board Accountability in Jefferson Parish. It received two payments totaling $446,000 from the AFT Solidarity Fund in September and October.
Of that amount, the committee spent more than $165,000 on canvassing and online advertising for five School Board candidates during the reporting period that ended Sept. 25:
2nd District, Ricky Johnson
3rd District, Ray St. Pierre
4th District, Glenn Mayeaux
5th District, Cedric Floyd
6th District, Meladie Munch, who is the local union president
That left the AFT's Jefferson committee with $281,000 to spend in the final weeks of the campaign.
FULL story at link.
BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A crowd of public school teachers protest outside the doors to a Jefferson Parish School Board meeting at Bonnabel Magnet Academy High in Kenner Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
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