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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'Radical, Antisemitic Agenda': Anti-Defamation League Slams Nation's Largest Teachers' Union for Banning Its Materials

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, for voting to ban its members from using any ADL materials in the classroom, calling the Sunday measure "a radical, antisemitic agenda."

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Union Leader Randi Weingarten, a David Hogg Ally, Ditches DNC in Rebuke to Chairman

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, who publicly supported former Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg's efforts to launch primary challenges against the party's incumbents, has resigned from the DNC in a rebuke to Chairman Ken Martin.

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Democratic Party's collapse continues: Teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten ditches DNC after 23 years



The Democratic Party is deeply unpopular, at odds with most of the electorate on several key issues, estranged from the working class, and roiled by infighting. It's becoming increasingly clear from recent personnel changes that hatred for President Donald Trump is not enough to hold the party together.

American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten, the childless leftist who helped undermine the mental and physical health of a generation of kids by fighting to keep them out of the classroom during the pandemic, has announced that she is leaving the Democratic National Committee.

Like David Hogg — the gun-grab activist who announced Wednesday that he was not running again for the DNC vice chair position seemingly stolen from him by Democratic election deniers — Weingarten appears to have an issue with DNC Chairman Ken Martin and the current state of play within the party.

Weeks before her hysterical speech at the No Kings rally in Philadelphia, Weingarten noted in a June 5 letter to Martin obtained by Politico that she is honored to have served as an at-large member of the DNC since 2002, on its rules and bylaws committee for the past 15 years, and as a delegate to each of the Democratic conventions for the past three decades.

'It’s flabbergasting to me that a senior DNC member, much less one as supposedly committed as Randi, would take the moment to make it all about her.'

"While I am proud to be a Democrat, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more and more of our communities," wrote the lesbian union boss, who collects an annual salary of well over $450,000.

She concluded her letter by emphasizing that the AFT will be "especially engaged in the 2025-26 elections."

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Blaze News reached out to Weingarten for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Martin, the longest-serving chairman in the history of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, campaigned on disabusing Americans of the understanding that "the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and the Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy and the elites" and uniting "families across, age, background and class."

Weingarten, under whose leadership the AFT has championed divisive race-obsessive initiatives and narratives, backed one of the losers in Martin's DNC chairmanship race, Ben Wikler. The AFT boss lauded Wikler in a joint statement for his "inclusive leadership" and for his "ability to unite the party during a tumultuous time."

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The union boss' issue with Martin may be a lot more personal than his victory over Wikler. After becoming DNC chair, Martin kicked Weingarten out of her position on the DNC's rules and bylaws committee.

A longtime Democratic strategist complained to The Hill about the timing of Weingarten's resignation ahead of the No Kings demonstrations held across the country on Saturday.

"Especially when the country just showed up by the millions across all demographic and geographic boundaries to take on Trump grassroots-style, it’s flabbergasting to me that a senior DNC member, much less one as supposedly committed as Randi, would take the moment to make it all about her," said the strategist.

Lee Saunders, the leftist president of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, also declined his nomination to remain on the DNC, telling the New York Times in a statement that the decision "comes after deep reflection and deliberate conversation about the path forward for our union and the working people we represent."

The news of Weingarten and Saunders' departures comes on the heels of David Hogg's unceremonious removal as DNC vice chair.

Hogg, who enjoyed backing from Weingarten, was elected the Democratic Party's youngest vice chairman on Feb. 1. Since the immutable characteristics of the winners of the February election were apparently undesirable, party elites declared Hogg's election null and void, then removed him last week through a virtual vote of 294 to 99.

In a long-winded thread explaining why he would not run again for the position just stolen from him, Hogg bashed the Democratic Party, claiming that Democratic leaders suffer a "serious lack of vision" and are "asleep at the wheel," and said that if Democrats "don't show our country how we are dramatically changing and provide an alternative vision for the future as a party, we will continue to lose."

He also alluded to his "fundamental disagreement about the role" of vice chair with Martin, who reportedly subjected the 25-year-old leftist to a tongue-lashing ahead of his removal.

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WATCH: Teacher’s union president delivers a rant so unhinged, it’s being compared to a scene from ‘The Office’



It’s hard to believe someone with the name Becky Pringle could deliver the terrifying tirade you’re about to hear.

Ms. Pringle is the president of the National Education Association, the largest teacher’s union in the United States, and she has a gusto that’s going down in the history books after her address to the union last week. In the speech, Pringle quite literally screamed about winning “all the things,” as she gasped for breath between sentences and slammed the podium with her fists.

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It’s a rant so outrageous that many people are making fun of it — some even comparing the speech to a Dwight Schrute scene from “The Office.” 

“Becky Pringle pulled a Dwight Schrute. She is off-the-rails and desperate to maintain control over the minds of other people’s children,” said Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom adjunct scholar and school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis.

Sara Gonzales is so horrified by Pringle’s spectacle, all she can say is, “That’s why I’m homeschooling my children.”

“The NEA, let's be clear, has never educated a single human being ever in the history of their existence,” adds Chad Prather.

On top of having a totally unhinged president, the members of the NEA “are not in it for the children.”

“They are all in it for themselves. They want to talk about equity; they want to talk about trans rights; they want to talk about racial justice,” says Sara.

To see one of the most outrageous speeches in history, watch the clip above.

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Fallout of union-championed pandemic school closures is worse than imagined



School closures had a deleterious impact on at least one generation of American children. Not only did kids' academic capabilities suffer during what became the longest interruptions in schooling since formal education became the norm; they also faced spikes in mental illness, suicide, obesity and diminished immune systems.

It turns out that the kids whose initial experience of public school was limited to those fleeting moments classrooms weren't shut down at the behest of teachers' unions are not all right.

According to the Education Week State of Teaching survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 pre-K through third-grade teachers, kids are struggling with social-emotional skills and basic motor function. The use of scissors, pencils, and crayons, as well as the practice of tying shoelaces, are apparently far more challenging tasks for kids today than they were for students of the same age five years ago.

94% of teachers indicated that listening and following instructions are now much or more challenging for their students. 77% said that students had difficulties using basic tools and writing instruments. 69% of respondents said kids were struggling to tie their own shoes. 85% of teachers said they saw a massive difference between the new and old cohorts when it came to "sharing, cooperating with others, and taking turns."

The National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University found that whereas other emotional and social issues have improved since the pandemic, kids' difficulty making friends, sharing, and getting along with their peers has worsened.

While pandemic kids are having trouble making friends, they appear to be really good at making enemies. Another survey by the EdWeek Research Center revealed in April that 70% of educators observed students in their schools misbehaving more than compared with the fall of 2019.

Steven Barnett, the senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, told Education Week that the pandemic precluded some parents from enrolling their children in preschool and kindergarten, which may have had an effect. Even if they had enrolled their kids, the union-supported school closures — which reportedly did not prevent community spread of COVID-19 — and the corresponding push toward remote learning would likely have had the same result.

Barnett suggested that poor kids may have been disproportionately impacted in terms of functionality.

"There is a concern that low-income kids did not come back to preschool as quickly as other kids," said Barnett.

According to the State of Teaching survey, 79% of teachers who reported kids having trouble tying their laces worked in schools where the vast majority of students received free and reduced-price lunch. Challenges with shoelaces were also more pronounced in schools where the majority of students were black.

Khy Sline, supervisor of curriculum development at KinderCare Learning Companies, told The Hill, "It definitely doesn't surprise me. I think that we all anticipated that the pandemic would have implications far beyond lockdown for not only young children but all children."

Sline indicated that such is the fallout of "losing that much time of connection while we were locked down and spending time primarily in our homes and just not necessarily having the same experiences and exposures to other children."

'I can imagine that that would be a very draining experience on a daily basis in the classroom.'

As during the pandemic, teachers have found a way to make this problem about them. Education Week noted that children stunted by school closures and deadly containment protocols might be disruptive to the classroom environment.

"As a teacher, if I feel that none of the children are listening, I can imagine that that would be a very draining experience on a daily basis in the classroom," said Sarah Duer, director of the Hollingworth Preschool at Teachers College.

Alex Gutentag, a former public school teacher, recently assigned blame for the fallout of the school closures in an article for Tablet magazine: "School closures were a yearlong exercise in anti-solidarity. Teachers expected essential workers to deliver food for them, pick up their trash, and literally keep the lights on — all while the union withheld real education from these workers' children."

'It is this fealty — not labor principles or educational concerns — that currently drives the union's actions.'

Gutentag suggested that teachers' unions' "fixation on 'safety' was a mania that amounted to the psychological abuse of children, and it has had lasting effect. This mania had little to do with actual safety and more to do with signs of fealty to the Democratic Party. It is this fealty — not labor principles or educational concerns — that currently drives the union's actions."

Blaze News previously reported that American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten called the Trump administration's proposal to reopen in-person learning in 2020 "reckless" and "cruel." While the AFT resisted a return to real work, union affiliates joined in, staging sickouts and going so far as to call reopening schools racist.

The National Education Union called for all schools to be shut down in spring 2020, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exempted them. The union's president, Becky Pringle, reportedly made over $500,000 while fighting to keep schools closed between September 2020 and August 2021.

 According to researchers at Stanford University and Harvard University, millions of the kids whom the AFT, the NEA, and like-minded groups successfully kept out of the classrooms have not yet made up for their academic losses.

"Over the course of the 2022-2023 school year, students in one state (Alabama) returned to pre-pandemic achievement levels in math," the Harvard Center for Education Policy Research team said in a release. "Despite progress, students in seventeen states remain more than a third of a grade level behind 2019 levels in math: AR, CA, CT, IN, KS, KY, MA, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NV, OK, OR, VA, WA, and WV."

As for achievement levels in reading, students still showing up for class in Illinois, Louisiana, and Mississippi returned to 2019 achievement levels in reading. The same could not be said of students in dozens of other states, who remain more than a third of a grade level behind.

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Chicago Teachers Union's $50 billion in demands: abortions, migrant services, required LGBTQ training, gender-neutral bathrooms



The Chicago Teachers Union is negotiating a new contract and making $50 billion in demands that include significant pay hikes, abortions, services for migrants, and required LGBTQ-related training.

In March, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates declared that the upcoming four-year contract "will cost $50 billion and 3 cents. And so what? That’s audacity. That’s Chicago."

To put the figure in context, the 2023 Illinois state budget is $50.4 billion.

The Chicago Public Schools budget will exceed $9 billion this year – up nearly 30% from $7.4 billion only five years ago.

The CPS spent more than $21,000 per student – far above the national average of $14,347. However, only 21% of the city's eighth graders were proficient readers, according to the most recent Nation’s Report Card.

Included in the massive contract, are provisions for abortions, migrant services, and required LGBTQ+ training.

Gates is demanding at least 9% wage increases each year over the next four years, which would push the average salary from the current rate of $93,182 to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year.

The union is also calling for the district to hire 2,500 new teacher aides.

According to Fox News, the leaked demands of the Chicago Teachers Union include "100% coverage benefits for abortion care, 100% coverage benefits for fertility including full coverage for storage of embryos and any other frozen storage needs."

Another supposed demand is that the taxpayers will need to provide $2,000 in academics, transportation, and mental health counseling to each migrant in the city. The union is also allegedly requiring that all of the 646 public schools to have a "newcomer liaison" for new students as well as migrant students. There is also an alleged requirement to transform unused school facilities into housing accommodations for illegal immigrants.

The union purportedly is demanding that every school have at least one gender-neutral restroom. Another reported requirement is that every counselor and social worker undergo yearly training on "LGBTQ+ issues."

According to the leaked documents, the union wants to prevent any member from being forced to inform parents when a student changes gender.

The teachers union requires a meeting with the superintendent after any "traumatic event" to discuss closing the school, The Federalist reported.

Gates – who sends her own son to a private Catholic school – told the Chicago Sun-Times last month: "We’re a labor union that understands the power of solidarity and the power of work stoppage."

The Chicago Teachers Union has deep ties to Mayor Brandon Johnson – a former CTU legislative coordinator who teachers unions gave him $5.6 million in campaign funds.

The teachers union contract expires in June.

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