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AAE In the News: A Look at the Left-Wing Groups the NEA Supports
posted by: Tim | May 27, 2014, 03:58 PM   

 

In 2012-13, the NEA spent about the same amount of money on "political activities and lobbying" ($44.7 million) as it did on "representational activities" ($44.2 million).

The NEA supported some liberal social causes that had little to do with education, according to its LM-2 report filed with the federal government.

For example, the NEA gave $20,000 to support same-sex marriage in Rhode Island and $300,000 to support same-sex marriage in Maryland in 2012-13. In 2011-12, the NEA gave $100,000 to Media Matters, a far left organization whose stated goal is to correct "conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

That same year, the NEA gave $150,000 to the Ohio Democratic Party. Then, in 2012-13, the union gave $155,000 to Democracy Alliance. The Washington Free Beacon described the Democracy Alliance as "a secretive dark money group backed by George Soros and other liberal mega-donors" that supports left-wing groups. 

Alexandra Freeze, senior director of communications and advocacy for the Association of American Educators, said teachers are looking for options that don't come with the political activism. The AAE is the largest non-union professional educators' organization in the nation.

"Teachers are demanding options for themselves that don't put them in the middle of a political debate," Freeze said. "Teachers don't realize they are being put in the middle as political pawns on these issues."

The NEA has promoted that it has many conservatives among its membership.

A 2005-06 NEA survey found that 45 percent of teachers under 30 classified themselves as conservative and 63 percent of teachers age 40 to 49 classified themselves as conservative.

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