[2][failed verification] KEA runs 15 offices throughout Kentucky and employs over 55 staff members under an Executive Director.
In the 2008 election, KEA spent over $27,000 to send direct mail to influence its members to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford.
[4] In 2011 the KEA pressed Kentucky lawmakers not to proceed with proposed cuts to the education budget,[5] but the bill passed on March 2, 2011.
[10] In 1955, KEA successfully lobbied both gubernatorial candidates to pledge an increase of $20 million to public schools in Kentucky.
[11] In 1968, KEA helped to push through an increase to the state's sales tax (to 5%) to provide additional funding for education.