A watchdog group released a pair of reports exposing how teachers’ unions across the United States have funneled more than $1 billion into left-wing political causes over the past decade.
Research from Defending Education reveals that national teachers’ unions alone appear to have poured approximately $669 million toward left-wing causes, PACs, organizations, and campaigns since 2015, Fox News first reported. When including state and local affiliates, the figure skyrockets to more than $1 billion in total political spending.
The report tracks political spending from the two largest teachers’ unions in the U.S., the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), as well as their state-level affiliates. The report draws its findings from federal filings and campaign finance records.
Rhyen Staley, Defending Education’s research director, told the outlet that these teachers’ unions “are a political machine.”
“Show me your budget and I will show you what you value; and what the teachers unions value is political power and advancing a left wing, social justice agenda,” Staley said. “Parents, families, and communities have little to no counter to the influence that teachers union dollars have on state and local campaigns. Gone are the days of unions just advocating for higher wages, better working conditions, and good health insurance; they are a political machine focused on fomenting a ‘political revolution.’”
Exactly the reason to not be part of NEA or NFT. I’ll keep my “dues” and vote for who I want, NOT who they support. The state of public education would be much better with no “associations”/ “unions”. I get the bargaining group, but trash the rest of it.