{"id":1423709,"date":"2022-04-07T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423709"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:15:02","slug":"largest-teachers-union-in-the-nation-spent-twice-as-much-on-politics-as-on-teacher-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/largest-teachers-union-in-the-nation-spent-twice-as-much-on-politics-as-on-teacher-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Teachers Union in the Nation Spent Twice as Much on Politics as on Teacher Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flargest-teachers-union-in-the-nation-spent-twice-as-much-on-politics-as-on-teacher-needs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><b>EXCLUSIVE \u2014<\/b> <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-education-association\">National Education Association<\/a>, the country&#8217;s largest <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/teachers-unions\">teachers union<\/a>, spent more than twice as much money on politics-related expenditures than on its membership, an analysis of the union&#8217;s filings shows. <\/p>\n<p>The data, compiled by the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/right-to-work\">right-to-work<\/a> nonprofit organization Americans for Fair Treatment, shows the teachers union donated $66 million to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/political-donations\">political activities<\/a> and another $117 million to &#8220;contributions, gifts, and grants&#8221; that were primarily political donations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The data reviewed by Americans for Fair Treatment, which was provided exclusively to the <i>Washington Examiner,<\/i> showed that the political activities donations totaled 18% of the union&#8217;s $374 million budget for 2020-2021. The &#8220;contributions, gifts, and grants&#8221; totaled 32% of expenditures. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/biden-rule-could-force-charter-schools-to-close-former-education-official-warns\">BIDEN RULE COULD FORCE CHARTER SCHOOLS TO CLOSE, FORMER EDUCATION OFFICIAL WARNS<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, only 9% of the NEA&#8217;s budget was spent on direct assistance to its members, who pay an annual fee of $200 to maintain their membership in the union. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The National Education Association\u2019s political and charitable spending in 2020-2021 makes the NEA look more like a political organization than a membership organization,&#8221; Americans for Fair Treatment told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. &#8220;The union spent $2 on politics for every $1 it spent on representing its members.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The largest beneficiary of the NEA&#8217;s political spending was its own political action committee, the NEA Advocacy Fund, which received $15.7 million from the union in the 2020-2021 school year. <\/p>\n<p>Other donations included $6.7 million to the State Engagement Fund, which funnels donations to left-wing political groups and Democratic candidates. A similar organization, the Strategic Victory Fund, received $1.85 million from the union. <\/p>\n<p>Donations to both organizations were counted among the union&#8217;s &#8220;contributions, gifts, and grants&#8221; expenditures rather than as political activities. The union also designated as a contribution a $1 million donation to Future Forward USA Action, a political action committee that backed then-candidate <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>&#8216;s 2020 presidential campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The political donations by the NEA dwarfed the $48.8 million in political activities and $5.9 million in contributions spent by the nation&#8217;s second-largest teachers union, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/american-federation-of-teachers\">American Federation of Teachers<\/a>, according to Americans for Fair Treatment. The combined total of the AFT&#8217;s political spending was less than 30% of its 2020-2021 expenses, as opposed to the nearly 50% spent by the NEA. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those numbers show where [the NEA&#8217;s] priorities lie,\u201d said Americans for Fair Treatment CEO David Osborne. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to supporting political action committees backing Democratic candidates, the NEA also made sizable donations to liberal advocacy groups, including a $125,000 donation to the nonprofit organization Project 2043, which helps &#8220;companies and nonprofit organizations achieve their Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility goals.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s website includes multiple phrases and verbiage often associated with critical race theory, which says U.S. institutions and culture are systemically racist and oppressive to racial minorities. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The NEA has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slf_liberty\/status\/1480692071719751682?s=20&#038;t=JCGvi5ScrKmMOVc8IL2ExA\">previously supported<\/a> the use of critical race theory in developing classroom curricula, even as Democratic politicians and liberal pundits have claimed the theory is not taught in public schools. <\/p>\n<p>The NEA did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 The National Education Association, the country&#8217;s largest teachers union, spent more than twice as much money on politics-related expenditures than on its membership, an analysis of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}