Despite the downward trend in members’ teachers, unions still spend large
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In the midst of a downward trend of members since the Supreme Court canceled the compulsory union contributions, the two largest unions of the country’s teachers paid tens of millions of people in the causes on the left, a new report notes a conservative childcare group.
The national non -profit group, defending Ed, published a report This week after painting through the National Education Association and contributions from the American Federation of Teachers to Groups on Left and Far left. The non -profit organization noted that the two unions had spent $ 43.5 million combined since 2022 to help finance the political and federal action committees and other ideologically left, such as DC Think Tanks.
“It is clear that the priorities of teachers’ unions are advancing the problems of far -left policy and radical social justice, not the education of children,” said emergency researcher Rhyen Staley to Fox News Digital. “This is a slap in the face of families and teachers who wish to focus on helping students to improve their reading and mathematics skills. It is time for Congress to stop this obscene redistribution of public funds to advance left identity policy.”
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The presidents of the two largest teaching unions in the country, Becky Pringle (on the left) of the National Education Association (NEA), and Randi Weingarten (right) of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). (Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for March for our lives)
The left-wing philanthropic giants such as the TIDES network, the new venture capital fund, the sixteen hours of the thirty and future Forward, the last of which was the main Super PAC supporting the presidential race of Kamla Harris in 2024 after the former president Joe Biden abandoned, all received a combined of almost 1.5 million dollars of the unions, according to the report.
The unions also landed on large amounts of species for groups focused on supporting left -wing candidates for the public service, such as the Democratic Governors Association, the majority of the Democratic Chamber and the majority of the PACS Senate.
Other groups they have given to include the main left -wing reflection groups such as the Center for American Progress and its arm 501 (C) (4), which has received nearly a million dollars since 2022 of the two unions.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (left) and Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (on the right) are expressed during the National Democratic Convention of Chicago, Illinois, August 22, 2024. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Aaron Withe, an expert in public sector unions, stressed that the National Education Association spent less than 10% of its budget on what it called “representation activities”, while, at the same time, the union spends 38% of its budget in contributions to leftist groups, lobbying and political gifts.
“You would think of the light of the decrease in members of the Union in recent years, which they would begin to provide value to the members who prevail over the cost of membership,” said Fox News Digital. “Instead, they soothe the radical base of the members of the union by pleading for men in female sports, minors in transition, anti -Semitism and other radical ideological positions.”
He added that it was only “the tip of the iceberg” also “if we consider that there are thousands of unions of state and city and county teachers who mainly finance the same causes.”
Education activists alongside elected officials attend a rally outside the American Capitol before the confirmation hearing of the nominee to the Linda McMahon education secretary on February 12, 2025, in Washington, DC (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for the National Education Association)
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Neither the National Education Association, nor the American Federation of Teachers, responded to the requests for repeated comments from Fox News Digital.
