America's largest teachers' union declares war on the Trump administration, will use kids as foot soldiers



Thousands of teachers gathered in Portland, Oregon, July 3-6 for the annual convention of the National Education Association.

Becky Pringle, the Democratic NEA president who reportedly made over $500,000 while fighting to keep schools closed at kids' expense between September 2020 and August 2021, made abundantly clear in her keynote address on July 3 that America's largest teachers' union is little more than a radical political entity. She indicated that now, more than ever, the union seeks to undermine the American people's democratically elected president, his government, and those state governments that would dare depoliticize the classroom, spare children from leftist propaganda, dismantle DEI, and uphold parental rights.

"Our country is depending on us, on this community, to lead the way from dogmatism back to decency," Pringle said in her speech, which she mainly shouted at her audience.

Although the NEA resolutions passed at the convention were apparently kept private this year, Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, obtained a copy. The resolutions, referred to as business items, reveal precisely how the radical union intends to wield its power in the coming months.

"It looks like a declaration of war on the Trump administration," DeAngelis told Blaze News.

'You really can't make this stuff up.'

"We already knew that the NEA was basically an arm of the Democrat Party based on their campaign contributions. Nearly all of their political funding is funneled to Democrats' campaign coffers every single election cycle, and we knew that the NEA supported Kamala Harris in the presidential election," DeAngelis continued. "But these resolutions take it up a notch."

According to the images of the documents obtained by DeAngelis and corroborated in a report in Education Week, one of the business items adopted at the convention obligates the NEA to "defend against Trump's embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program and actions."

The NEA indicated that the price tag on this initiative is an "additional $3,500."

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"You really can't make this stuff up," DeAngelis said. "You have the nation's largest teachers' union, in their attempt to call the president a 'fascist,' misspell the word. It's another bit of free advertising for school choice and homeschooling."

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Another business item adopted at the convention, according to the documents provided by DeAngelis, commits the union to using "existing media channels to oppose any move to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interest of the billionaires."

"I don't know how in the world they can say getting rid of the Department of Education, which has failed at every academic metric for low-income and minority kids, is somehow racist," DeAngelis told Blaze News. "If anything, keeping that department around has more roots in racism than anything since it has failed to close achievement gaps and to get black kids, in particular, at proficiency levels in reading and math."

'They're trying to subvert the will of parents.'

The documents provided by DeAngelis indicate that the NEA, which equated states' rights with Jim Crow, also adopted a business item to support "affiliates in states where legislative bodies have taken or are taking actions that silence educators, restrict collective bargaining, remove fair dismissal protections, or other actions that negatively affect public education, educators, and potential voter suppression laws that seek to undermine public education."

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According to the language of this business item, which singles out Arkansas and South Carolina as states in "extreme need," the support could take various forms, including lobbying, providing legal assistance, and "mobilizing retired and current NEA members."

The teachers' union appears keen to continue turning American students against their government, in part by championing student protests against both law enforcement and Trump's policies.

"NEA opposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) kidnapping of student leaders and supports students' right to organize against ICE raids and deportations," says business item 63, among those apparently adopted at the convention. "We will protect our students' right to free speech and defend their right to dissent and organize against Trump's policies, including attacks against LGBTQ+ students, and against racism."

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Such efforts might have to wait a year, as the NEA indicated that "this item cannot be accomplished with current staff and resources under the 2025-26 Modified Strategic Plan and Budget."

In addition to supporting student uprisings, the documents provided by DeAngelis indicate the NEA adopted another resolution declaring its support for mass movements against the government, including the "No Kings" protests and the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles.

When asked about the relevance of the NEA's agenda to parents, DeAngelis said, "These resolutions are your wake-up call to homeschool your kids," and reiterated, "It's free advertising for school choice."

"Would you want these lunatics at the National Education Association like Becky Pringle teaching your kids? Do you want them to help you raise your children? Do you want them to push back against everything you're trying to do in the household?" said DeAngelis. "They're trying to subvert the will of parents."

DeAngelis underscored that teachers' unions don't regard schools as a place for kids to read, write, and learn math but rather as the means "to control the minds of other people's children" and "churn out more Democrat foot soldiers to push their progressive worldview on the rest of the country."

"We must use our power to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts," Pringle said in her speech, adding that the NEA is going to "educate, communicate, organize, mobilize, litigate, legislate, elect."

Blaze News has reached out to the NEA for comment and to confirm the authenticity of the provided documents.

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Trump admin battles teachers’ unions in latest Education Department legal challenges



President Donald Trump’s administration faces several legal challenges over its attempts to ultimately dismantle the Department of Education.

On Monday, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, filed a lawsuit against the administration’s allegedly “illegal attempts” to terminate the ED. The NEA was joined by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a Maryland-based labor union, and parents of public school children.

'Done nothing to advance the educational outcomes of America’s students.'

“Taken together, Defendants’ steps since January 20, 2025, constitute a de facto dismantling of the Department by executive fiat,” the complaint read. “But the Constitution gives power over ‘the establishment of offices [and] the determination of their functions and jurisdiction’ to Congress—not to the President or any officer working under him.”

The union claimed that the termination of the ED would negatively impact students.

“Eliminating or effectively shuttering the Department puts at risk the millions of vulnerable students, including those from low-income families, English learners, homeless students, rural students, and others who depend on Department support,” the NEA stated.

However, the union also acknowledged that the “vast majority of America’s public education system” is overseen by “state and local governments.”

NEA President Becky Pringle accused Trump, Elon Musk, and ED Secretary Linda McMahon of “try[ing] to steal opportunities from our students, our families, and our communities to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.”

A separate lawsuit was also filed against the administration by the American Federation of Teachers, joined by “a coalition of educators, school districts, and unions.”

“From distributing funds to help schools work with students with disabilities, to providing support and assistance to parents and families, protecting students’ civil rights, and making sure higher education is affordable for deserving students, civil servants at the Department of Education are essential to the success of students. Mass firings of these hardworking people planned by the Trump administration will harm students and schools,” the AFT stated.

AFT President Randi Weingarten said, “The Department of Education, and the laws it is supposed to execute, has one major purpose: to fill opportunity gaps to help every child in America succeed.”

“That’s what the ‘equal access’ provided for in the statute means. And over the last five decades, Congress has fulfilled this mission to help poor kids, kids with disabilities, first generation college kids, kids who want to work in a trade, and 45 million Americans with student debt. Now, wielding a sledgehammer, this president is destroying that promise for this and future generations,” Weingarten continued. “No one likes bureaucracy, and everyone’s in favor of more efficiency, so let’s find ways to accomplish that.”

Both lawsuits expressed concerns that the massive cuts to the ED would interrupt critical services. However, just last week, the Trump administration stated that core functions of the department would not be impacted. The president announced he would shift some of the department’s remaining duties to other federal agencies. Moving forward, the Small Business Administration will manage student loans, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education.

Harrison Fields, principal deputy press secretary for the White House, told USA Today, “Instead of playing politics with baseless lawsuits, these groups should ditch the courtroom and work with the Trump administration and states on improving the classroom.”

“The NEA and NAACP have done nothing to advance the educational outcomes of America’s students and the latest NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress] scores prove that,” Fields concluded.

The Trump administration and its ED cuts are already facing a lawsuit filed by a group of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C.

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Educators 'know better than anyone' what kids 'need to learn and thrive' says teachers' union that called for school closures



The largest national teachers' union in the country took to social media over the weekend to reaffirm its contempt for parents and taxpayers. In a Saturday tweet, the National Education Association (NEA) suggested that the same people who advocated for stultifying school closures, masking, and the use of experimental vaccines in children "know better than anyone." The tweet was not well received.

Those who can't do, tweet

The NEA represents 3 million "educators," including public school teachers, staffers at colleges and universities, and aspiring indoctrinaires.

More than just a teachers' union, the NEA is a partisan force that doesn't simply seek to "advance the cause of public education," but supports abortion; amnesty for illegal aliens; gun bans; race-based admissions and hiring; LGBTQ activist-dictated pronoun use; statehood for the District of Columbia; making race the crux of all educational considerations; and BLM.

According to tax filings obtained by Fox News Digital, during the pandemic the NEA gave $200,000 to the George Soros-founded leftist group Democracy Alliance, which reportedly helps set up the Democratic agenda. It gave $100,000 to the Strategic Victory Fund, which boosted progressive candidates in battleground states.

The NEA gave $6.1 million to the New Jersey Education Association, which took out attack ads on parents who were critical of critical race and gender theories. The association also called on social media platforms to censor the speech of concerned parents online.

The NEA, whose president is a leftist partisan and a "fierce social justice warrior," knows which political causes to rally behind with taxpayers' money because it believes it knows best.

The union made that abundantly clear when its official Twitter account wrote, "Educators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and to thrive."

\u201cEducators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and to thrive.\u201d
— NEA (@NEA) 1668298980

The tweet was met with fierce criticism.

Corey A. DeAngelis, a senior fellow at American Federation for Children and executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, replied, "They aren't your kids."

DeAngelis posted a survey posing the question, "Who knows best[?]" and respondents made clear it's not the NEA, with nearly 99% of over 4,400 respondents answering "parents."

Turning Point USA contributor Lauren Chen wrote, "Please keep telling parents that you know better how to raise their children. Seriously, keep going. School choice is getting a huge boost nationwide and I feel like we have you to thank for it."

\u201c@NEAToday Please keep telling parents that you know better how to raise their children.\n\nSeriously, keep going. School choice is getting a huge boost nationwide and I feel like we have you to thank for it\u201d
— NEA (@NEA) 1668298980

Libs of TikTok similarly suggested that the NEA's post read like "an ad for school choice."

NEA's recent track record on helping kids 'thrive'

In spring 2020, the NEA called for all schools to be shut down, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exempted them. The impact of these school shutdowns have been calamitous.

Recent studies have indicated that this decision by the collective of educators who "know better" has been linked to a significant spike in mental illness, suicide, and obesity, as well as to students' diminished immune systems.

"Children are still feeling the catastrophic effects of prolonged school closures all because teacher union leaders wrote the guidance that kept our schools closed," Caitland Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told Fox News Digital.

Politico reported that Pringle fought the Trump administration over its expressed desire to get children back into school. Pringle went so far as to call for former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' resignation for her insistence on educators getting back to the task of in-person educating.

NEA President Becky Pringle told Politico in 2020 that the NEA would mount strikes, protests, and sickouts, as well as file lawsuits against states like Florida, Iowa, and Georgia, in order to block reopening efforts.

The NEA and the American Federation of Teachers both reportedly did their best to slow-walk getting children back into school.

When kids were finally permitted to come back from isolation, the NEA issued guidelines stating that "vaccines must be pervasive to be effective" and called on state legislatures to help "minimize the numbers of unvaccinated students to those necessary."

Extra to seeking to segregate healthy unvaccinated children from classrooms, KTBC reported in August 2021 that the NEA peddled the discredited claim that vaccines had been "proven to be enormously effective in fending off infection."

Pringle told the Atlantic, "Everyone who can be vaccinated needs to be vaccinated. ... Right now, we’re partnering with the Department of Education to raise vaccination rates among our students who are 12 and up."

"We need to make sure that [the COVID-19 vaccine] is added to the list of vaccinations that are required for students to go to school," Pringle told CBS News.

TheBlaze reported over the weekend that Pfizer and Moderna will launch clinical trials to track adverse health issues stemming from the COVID-19 vaccines, such as myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle.

According to the CDC, cases of myocarditis and pericarditis have "especially been [reported] in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination."

Healthy students may have been put at risk at the NEA's insistence, despite it knowing "better than anyone."

While children may not necessarily thrive on account of the NEA's recent actions, Pringle appears to be doing quite well.

Pringle, who celebrated the approval of the then-experimental Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old, pocketed $534,243 in compensation from the NEA and its affiliates between September 2020 and August 202, reported Fox News Digital.

Caitland Sutherland said that "Becky Pringle lined her pockets with over half a million dollars and peddled politics at the expense of returning to in-person learning."