Teachers’ union puts leftism over kids — Congress, – Latest News
The National Education Association, America’s largest lecturers’ union, enjoys a uncommon privilege: a federal constitution, granted by Congress in 1906 — the one labor union to carry that distinction.
But leaked resolutions from its 2025 annual assembly, shared with us by a dismayed union member, reveal an group that has traded its academic mission for blatant political activism.
Congress should revoke the NEA’s federal constitution to signal its disgust on the union’s taxpayer-backed assault on college students, mother and father and common sense.
The NEA’s annual conference in Portland, Ore. final week produced resolutions that learn like a progressive battle plan — not a roadmap for higher colleges.
In a second of peak parody, one authorised decision dedicated spending $3,500 of union money on “using the term facism in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.”
Yes, the lecturers union misspelled “fascism” whereas making use of that label to the duly elected president of the United States.
The irony is wealthy: The NEA accuses others of authoritarianism whereas pushing for presidency control over training, preventing tooth and nail towards faculty selection to entice kids in union-controlled, government-run colleges.
Historically, actual fascists in Italy and elsewhere restricted academic choices to brainwash the youth, a tactic the NEA mirrors.
That wasn’t all. Another NEA decision pledged $1,500 and the work of union staffers to assist “the mass democratic movement against Trump’s authoritarianism and violations of human rights” by means of the “No Kings” motion.
And as The Post has reported, NEA members additionally voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, an group based to fight antisemitism.
The union’s 2025 “Teacher of the Year,” Ashlie Crosson, underscored its political bias in her conference speech.
“Once I realized how deeply political our profession has always been, I knew I could no longer stay on the sidelines,” she declared.
No surprise the NEA’s membership in 2019 soundly rejected a proposal to “rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America.”
Instead, the union this 12 months embraced resolutions to “defend birthright citizenship” and assist college students “organizing against Trump’s policies” and “against ICE raids and deportations.”
It claimed them as issues of free expression — however conspicuously omitted any message of assist for college students who would possibly converse in favor of Trump’s insurance policies.
This selective advocacy reveals the union’s true purpose: molding younger minds into activists for its progressive imaginative and prescient.
To undercut the Supreme Court’s landmark choice empowering mother and father to decide their kids out of gender-ideology instruction, NEA members voted to spend over $200,000 on paperwork and conferences teaching lecturers on how to embed LGBTQ+ supplies of their classes — with out dealing with penalties.
This decision subverts parental rights, making the NEA a wedge between households and their kids.
Yet one other authorised decision labeled President Trump’s plans to remove the Department of Education as “illegal, anti-democratic, and racist.”
Yet the division’s observe file reveals it’s the established order that’s failing minority college students. The NEA’s combat to guard its monopoly prioritizes ineffective adults over weak kids, locking poor kids in underperforming colleges.
Open Secrets knowledge confirms the NEA’s partisanship: Since 1990, practically all its political contributions — 98.24% within the 2024 election cycle — have gone to Democrats.
This is a political machine, not an training group.
Its resolutions, which learn like a declaration of conflict on the Trump administration, don’t have anything to do with instructing — and every little thing to do with advancing a socialist agenda.
The NEA’s hypocrisy in labeling others as fascists whereas stifling academic freedom is obvious.
By preventing to keep kids in failing authorities colleges, the NEA protects itself whereas limiting households’ choices — a hallmark of the authoritarian control it claims to oppose.
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Enough. It’s previous time for Congress to move Virginia Rep. Bob Good’s National Education Association Charter Repeal Act.
Revoking the constitution would strip the NEA of its congressional endorsement and particular standing, diminishing its perceived authority.
It wouldn’t dissolve the union, however would take away the federal legitimacy that bolsters its sway over training coverage, decisively demonstrating that Congress no longer endorses its agenda.
An group that traps poor kids in failing colleges to guard its energy shouldn’t have the backing of the federal authorities.
The NEA has strayed removed from its authentic objective — and its privileged standing should finish.
Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow on the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow on the American Institute for Economic Research. Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, is a visiting fellow on the Heritage Foundation.
