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According to federal labor filings, the National Education Association (NEA), a group that IFA has covered before, funneled millions in union funds to far-left groups and causes, including ballot initiatives and social justice organizations.
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From Fox News:
A November Form L-2 disclosure from the National Education Association (NEA) filed in November and obtained by the North American Values Institute (NAVI) shows 2024 fiscal year spending that involved millions given to social justice-oriented groups and far-left causes.
The NEA, which boasts more than 3 million members, sent $300,000 to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money group Fox News Digital has reported on extensively, and tens of thousands of dollars to the Tides Foundation network, which Fox News Digital previously reported has ties to anti-Israel protests and a variety of far left causes.
Among the largest expenditures was more than $3.5 million sent to Education International, a global teachers federation where NEA President Becky Pringle serves as a vice president. The filing also details hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing to organizations backing ballot initiatives aimed at reshaping education policy and election laws in states, including Ohio, Massachusetts, Arizona and Wisconsin.
Regarding ballot initiatives, the NEA reportedly spent $500,000 on a campaign to end standardized testing in Massachusetts and another $500,000 on an anti-gerrymandering amendment in Ohio. The union also gave $500,000 to a progressive consulting firm that specializes in ballot initiatives and canvassing.
The NEA also reportedly gave over $160,000 to a consulting firm focused on racial equity training, $350,000 to a foundation that “fuels racial and education justice movements,” and “tens of thousands” according to Fox to groups promoting “social justice education.”
NAVI Director of Research Mika Hackner highlighted the union’s distorted priorities, telling Fox that the NEA is spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars on pet political projects completely divorced from the needs and wants of most teachers.” This has led some to call for the group’s federal charter to be re-evaluated, such as Erika Sanzi, senior director of communications for Defending Education, who said of the NEA, “Their leadership — and by extension, the organization itself — has morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education.”
At IFA, we have covered the NEA in several articles. IFA Contributor Nancy Huff, our education expert, has labeled the union as “an extension of the Democrat party,” accusing it of “interjecting liberal, progressive, ungodly policy into the hearts of millions of America’s brightest and most promising minds of students who occupied seats in our nation’s 99,000 public schools.”
What can be done? According to Huff, the President is already working to correct this. As IFA has warned previously, the Department of Education (ED) serves as a de-fact cabinet seat for the NEA. But with President Trump and ED Secretary Linda McMahon working hard to dismantle the department, the union is set to lose a great deal of federal power that it has confidently held for nearly 50 years.
As the NEA continues to push far-left policies in our nation and its schools, let’s for our leaders in the Trump administration. Pray that President Trump and Secretary McMahon would be able to reign this group in and stop it from corrupting future generations!
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