Revoking NEAs charter is a good step toward holding teachers unions accountable for failing kids

A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the National Education Association’s congressional charter.What’s to consider? The union, the nation’s largest representing teachers, clearly hasn’t met its obligations under the charter; Congress should revoke it pronto.Sen.Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is urging colleagues to reconsider the NEA’s charter specifically over its links to a number of far-left nonprofits, including the Zinn Education Project and Rethinking Schools, and its alleged out-of-control financial mismanagement.Those and other NEA-linked groups push agendas that actually justify the terrorism and murders committed by the Black Panther Party and push for indoctrinating young kids with gender extremism.“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,” fumed Cassidy.“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.”A charter revocation wouldn’t stop the NEA from operating, but it would deliver a severe reputational blow to the group.It’s one that’s long overdue —- and not only because the union has focused on hard-left politics instead of history, geography, math and science. In fact, the NEA, along with the American Federation of Teachers, has presided over a decades-long effort to completely wreck any meaningful standards in education in order to shield their millions of members from any accountability.At the same time, they fought for ever fatter paychecks and pensions, while spending millions in union dues on radical-left political causes.  Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.Please provide a valid email.

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