The recipient of a master's degree in educational leadership from Aurora University, Edward Brandon is an experienced teacher who spent 13 years teaching at East Aurora School District 131. Supplementing his extensive experience, East Aurora, Illinois, resident Edward Brandon holds membership with the National Education Association (NEA).
This past August, NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia expressed support for increased wages and resources for teachers in response to the 2018 PDK Poll for the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, which highlighted the public's backing of the same ideals. Seventy-eight percent of public school parents questioned for the poll said they would support teachers in their respective communities if they went on strike to demand higher wages, while two-thirds of those polled said public school teachers aren't paid fairly.
The poll also found that, according to the majority of Americans, a lack of funding is the biggest concern for public schools. Nearly 80 percent of those polled would prefer to improve the current public school system, however, than to find an alternative approach. That is the highest percentage recorded since the question was included in the poll 20 years ago.
