Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is asking his peers to take a closer look at the NEA’s congressional charter, essentially saying the union has sold out.
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The leader of an influential Senate committee on education is pushing Congress to review the charter of the country’s biggest teacher’s union, denouncing its alleged leftist links and for supposedly acting irresponsibly when it comes to its finances.
According to a story by Fox News, the National Education Association, which represents roughly 3 million educators, has come under criticism for rallying students and teachers to back liberal activist campaigns and for spending millions in membership dues to aid left-wing causes and partnered with organizations that support political violence and far-left extremism.
But now, Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is asking his peers to take a closer look at the NEA’s congressional charter.
“Children are struggling to read and to do basic math. Instead of helping students succeed, teachers’ unions are injecting a dangerous, anti-American agenda into our classrooms,” Cassidy told Fox News Digital. “Parents deserve to send their children to school without worrying that they will be indoctrinated with DEI and taught that Americans have ‘misplaced faith’ in our institutions.”
In 1906, Congress chartered the NEA under the hope that it would “elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States,” a mission Cassidy and some other Republicans contend it has since drifted from. Revoking the NEA’s charter would mostly be a reputational blow to the union, as it would still be able to operate even without it.
In a report summarizing the NEA’s activity obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, it puts a spotlight on the Zinn Education Project and Rethinking Schools — a pair of interlinked educational nonprofits that the top teachers union has collaborated with extensively.
For example, the Zinn Education Project and Rethinking Schools have published curricular materials that approve the actions of the Black Panther Party — a left-wing militant Black nationalist organization that operated during the Cold War — and lauded its members, including those who were involved in acts of political violence, according to the report.
“The Marxist and communist ideologies espoused by the Black Panther Party are inconsistent and incompatible with the foundation of the United States Constitution,” Cassidy’s report, published by the HELP committee, reads. “The Black Panthers advocated for the use of armed force against police and were involved in the murders of civil servants and members of their own party.”
In addition, Rethinking Schools also published a lesson plan where students are intended to role-play as “queer liberation” activists fighting against the “Religious Right,” according to the report. Another lesson plan, titled “Expanding Intersectional Queer History in the Elementary Grades,” instructs teachers on how to incorporate LGBTQ material into lessons for young students.
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