Recent high profile killings of teachers have prompted the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher’s union, to offer a $150,000 benefit to the families of teachers who are slain on the job. The new benefit, which is free to NEA members, allows victim’s families to collect three times more than if the teacher were killed in an accident. A spokesman for the American Federation of Teachers says that while its members have not requested such a benefit, the AFT would consider a similar homicide benefit for its own members.
See "Teachers’ union offers unlawful-homicide benefit", Greg Toppo, Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2001