Congress Has Other Tricks To Get Largest Teacher's Union In Line

The National Education Association (NEA) has become the country's largest teacher's union the last few decades. But with that, it has also grown amok and become a completely partisan branch to push the Democrat agenda. That is not some mystical fantasy, it has become evident across the nation's schools. The thrusting of DEI, sexualized books, and critical race theory on children, all to try and warp young, impressionable minds.

The longtime goal has been to invade public schools with progressive politics, and they were doing quite the job at it. That is until President Trump came back to office, banning the use of DEI in schools, and threatening to revoke the federal funding of those who do. The NEA does not care through and continues trying to find loopholes to get what they want into schools.

Now, the NEA does a have a charter with the federal government, which ties to their federal funding. But Sherry Sylvester of the Texas Public Policy Foundation says that really hinges on them being non-partisan.

"All the other organizations that have these charters are non-partisan...the teacher's union, meanwhile, is probably the largest outspoken ally of the Democrat party," she says.

Plenty of teachers have been caught red-handed in recent months, pushing LGBT themed books in classrooms, or going on dramatic tantrums against Trump's policies. Telling students they need to think that the deportation of illegals is wrong, or the country is racist.

All of it is based in the fantasy they can delude young voters into believing in their progressive agenda before they can even think for themselves. It is a twisted bit of partisanship that has, unfortunately, come at the neglect of actual education.

"26 percent of high school students are proficient in math...meaning 74 percent are not...only 40 percent of student in elementary school are reading at grade level," Sylvester says.

President Trump has made is a goal of his to dismantle the Department of Education, to return the power to the states. Of course, the NEA does not fall under that umbrella, so abolishing the union is not a realistic possibility.

However, Congress can take action by going after amending their charter. Because as we have learned, if you threaten to revoke all that beautiful government money, people will change their tune really quick.

In this case, the NEA's attitude needs to change sooner rather than later.

"The teachers are a huge problem in our country, not just politically...but in terms of what we are investing in our future," says Sylvester.

She adds the next step would be amending the charter in Congress. But also, they need to look at changing the dues and not require joining the union.