(a) to provide maximum educational opportunities for ALL students by providing a higher quality of teaching sound programs of instruction, and adequate financing for public education; (b) to seek economic security for ALL education employees; (c) increase public awareness of the goals of AEA as related to the needs, problems, and progress of education,(d)maintain a strong, independent, united education profession, (e) protect the constitutional, statutory, and human rights of ALL education employees and students, (f) to improve the moral and ethical climate in schools and government; (g)represent members in their employment relations with their employers (h)support maximum employee input into the decisions and policies of their employer