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Union Probe Could Include NCAE
RALEIGH — Landmark Legal Foundation may be looking for new targets in its campaign to bring federal heat on teachers unions that illegally use member dues to fund political activities. Having investigated the powerful National Education Association since the mid-1990s, Landmark may soon be shifting its focus to some of the NEA’s local and state affiliates such as the North Carolina Association of Educators. The NCAE has been mentioned in several of Landmark’s federal complaints, such as an account of a 1999 general conference in which then-NEA President Bob Chase congratulated the NCAE for helping to unseat former Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth and elect Democrat John Edwards.