President Obama impersonator and teacher Sean NgYing, of Deltona, Fla., center, takes photos with Melissa Sisk, left, and Kathleen Johnson, both teachers in Anne Arundel, Md., during a fundraiser for a Democratic PAC at the National Education Association's annual convention in Washington, on Thursday, July 5, 2012.
That's not stopping NEA members who disagree with Obama from making their voices heard.
In the convention center's basement-level expo center, squeezed in between the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teacher's caucus and a stall selling designer handbags of questionable authenticity, sat a small, two-person table for the NEA's Republican Educators Caucus. The group has about 160 members, although it has seen its ranks grow in recent years, said Davina Keiser, the caucus chairwoman.
"For Republican teachers, it's almost like we're stepchildren in NEA, and then in the Republican Party we're also stepchildren, because we're public schoolteachers, and that's not part of their focus," said Keiser, who teaches high school math in Long Beach, Calif.
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