Posts tagged National School Boards Association
When Educational Institutions Drift, Build New Ones
May 13, 2026 // For educators who do not want to spend their time or hard-earned paychecks on these unions, alternatives are emerging. Teacher Freedom Alliance and the Association of American Educators offer liability protection and classroom-focused professional development—without forcing members to subsidize political advocacy. This model reflects the original intent of unions to support and protect educators, not push ideological agendas that make their jobs harder. The same pattern appears in standardized testing. Many parents may not realize that SAT is owned by the College Board, an organization that has drifted ideologically left over the past decade. A 2024 report by the Goldwater Institute highlights this with examples of the organization’s embrace of “anti-racism” and “equity.”
Commentary: Unions Have Hijacked Our Schools – This Election Can Change That
November 5, 2024 // Unions mean to exclude parents, and they mean to get ugly about it if parents insist on parenting their children. When perturbed parents in Virginia challenged board members about Marxist curricula, the unions raised their National School Boards Association big guns to teach them a lesson. Suddenly, U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, instructed the FBI to treat parents questioning board members as “domestic terrorists.” Garland further characterized parents as an “imminent threat.”
Teachers union chief hires seasoned lawyer ahead of Hill testimony
April 20, 2023 // Randi Weingarten is lawyering up. The American Federation of Teachers president has retained a top white-collar defense attorney ahead of her scheduled testimony on school closures during the height of the Covid-19 crisis to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic next week. Weingarten is taking a swipe at the panel’s Republicans ahead of an all-but-assured grilling from conservatives looking to probe the union’s alleged influence over federal disease-mitigation guidelines the GOP blames for closing schools.
Randi Weingarten Complains About Politicization of Schools, but Has Only Herself to Blame
July 21, 2022 // Whether it was being moved to the front of the vaccine line, hazard pay, or teaching class online from a beach in Puerto Rico, many teachers’ union leaders decided there were benefits to staying out of the classroom. Thankfully, forcing more parents to host “Zoom school” in their living rooms also brought a degree of transparency to the indoctrination the teachers’ unions have been pushing for years.