Approximately 550 educators are on fall election ballots, the National Education Association, a teachers union, claimed Monday, following a national survey of federal, state, and local elections.

The union attributed the strong showing to a series of teachers’ strikes and walkouts for higher wages earlier in the year in states like Arizona, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

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