A report from the consequence organization Parents Defending Educationdisclosed by the Portal National Review On Monday (25), revealed that the two largest teachers’ unions in the United States allocated about $ 43.5 million to entities aligned with the American progressive left between 2022 and 2024.
The data, extracted from official records in the Labor Department, show that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Association of Education (Nea) channeled resources for democratic campaign funds, think tanks Progressives and social activism groups.
Benefites are the campaign democratic committees for the US Congress House Majority PAC e Senate Majority PACwhich received nearly $ 3 million from AFT. The same union also passed $ 250,000 to Future Forwardfund that supported Democrat Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy in 2024. State Engagement Fundleft -wing entity that redistributes resources to various progressive profile organizations.
According to the survey, groups that defend guidelines such as weapon control, access to abortion and “racial equity” also appear among the recipients.
“Teacher unions say they are committed to improving education, but their expenses show otherwise. […] This is an insult to US families and teachers who want student results to improve, rather than being used as a tool to fund left policy, ”said Rhyen Staley, Research Director of Defending Education.
The advance of the leftist political activism between Unions and Educational Institutions of the US, not restricted only to financial donations. Another investigation by the same organization, published in June, revealed that local education union contracts began to include compulsory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) clauses. These documents determine “anti -racist training”, hiring programs based on racial criteria and even rules that shield teachers who integrate “minorities” of layoffs into certain school networks.
The presence of left -wing ideological criteria has also extended to academia. A study of the organization Heterodox Academyreleased this month, analyzed more than 10,000 notices of vacancies in American universities and concluded that 22.3% still require declarations of commitment to progressive guidelines, such as diversity, equity and inclusion – even in states that formally prohibited this type of requirement. Many institutions have replaced the term “Dei” with expressions such as “social justice” or “belonging” to maintain practice in their selection processes.
