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What do you call an organization made up of 3 million government employees who can’t find 3 parents per state who agree with its radical policies?
National Education Association (NEA).
Indeed, as a new report from Education Week notes, the NEA, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, just finished its annual meeting, and its trajectory is as extreme as it is bleak.
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As EdWeek reports, the NEA has lost 115,000 members between 2017 and 2022, and as part of its latest budget (along with thousands of other “educational assistance professionals”) more The plan is to lose 24,000 teachers.
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But the real revealing story is the devastating lack of support for the NEA’s radical policies outside of those who are financially benefiting from the taxpayer review. . especially, parents They clearly rejected the NEA’s extremism so outright that EdWeek reports:
“Another membership category has never fully materialized. Created a category. The union had expected to enroll 6,300 community allies by the end of the year, but that number is now close to 150.” (emphasis added).
Perhaps it’s no surprise that parents are a little reluctant to join groups Expressly Dedicated to promoting critical race theory (CRT), race-based reparations, and radical gender ideologies, while criticizing parent groups like Moms for Liberty as a “threat” to public schools. I’m trying to stigmatize it.
At the same time, even with regard to the existing base of government personnel, the NEA is panicking at the government’s demands. Ron DeSantis and Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation earlier this year to stop unions from automatically siphoning teachers’ salaries to pay their dues. “The discontinuation of the payroll deduction service will have a ‘devastating and immediate’ impact on members,” NEA President Becky Pringle warned attendees, Edweek reported.
In short, the union recognizes that membership rosters could really start to go downhill once members start to feel the effects of shoving the NEA’s hand in their pocket.
But by then, the organization had already sought re-election for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, had budgeted more than $50 million for political campaigning and lobbying, and was now increasing its membership support. planning to raise more than $1 million for Anemia’s “Community Allies” (Parents) program will continue to power American elections and the education of millions of American children.
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But thanks to grassroots groups like Mothers for Freedom and the leadership of governors in Florida, Arkansas, and elsewhere, parents It will resonate much louder in government and in education than those who called for endless shutdowns, mask wearing and federal spending during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indeed, for the first time in decades, public schools are clearly on the defensive. In 2022 and 2023, universal school choice will spread across the United States over protest cries from union activists who want to lock students in underperforming governments. run a school.
Currently, political leaders and advocates for parental rights continue to push forward not only school choice, but also related laws such as full online academic transparency for the public to publish course content imposed on students in public schools. promotion is essential.
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Of course, student victories don’t come all overnight, and as the NEA and its allies increasingly twist and abuse the English language to redefine words and concepts to suit their purposes, the list of union absurdities will continue to increase. But the latest NEA General Assembly calls, for example, in all trade union communications to rename “labor rights” states as “anti-workers” states, has led to their despair and poor grasp of the truth. If it somehow demonstrates ugliness, then we, those who support student and parental rights, have great reason to be hopeful.
The NEA’s “regional allies” brigade, on the other hand, is probably less so.
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