Teachers union spends more money for politics than it does on schools

The teachers unions are the most powerful unions in the country maybe the world. They are also so corrupt that they have managed to turn government school children into a bunch of mindless idiots.

The National Education Association members pay into a “Ballot Measure/Legislative Crises Fund” that allows the union to spend tens of millions of dollars on all state and national politics. In the 2007-08 fiscal year, the NEA spent $2.3 million on top of $1 million spent the previous fiscal year in which they were fighting a school voucher referendum in Utah. Those damn private schools! I hate it when parents want to have the choice of sending their kids to schools that actually care and want to teach their children.

The NEA finished 2007-08 with a surplus of nearly $5.9 million, which means the union will enter the 2008-09 school year with almost $20 million available to spend. And will they be spending that on the school children? Probably not.

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2 Responses to “Teachers union spends more money for politics than it does on schools”

Jimmy Joe Johnson Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
How many children are members of the NEA?
Wayne Maher Says:
August 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
All we hear from the Democrats and their supporters ie: NEA and state affiliates is “Its for the children” no matter how money they ask for. In New Jersey where I live I hear this all the time. We need billions and billions of spending for the Newark’s and Camden’s of the state but no where to be found is any accountability of where these billions go. In one “special needs district” which receives almost 100% funding from the state, not the local taxpayers the retiring superintendent was given a package worth over $758,000 and a pension on top of that over $100,000 a year. Where are test scores in this district near the bottom of any district in the state. The NJEA and it’s partner The Educational Law Center keep running to the NJ Supreme Court for more money and the court orders the sate legislature to borrow it and they do. A few years ago the court ordered eight billion in borrowing to build and renovate new schools some where along the way the money got spend and the schools are not finished something like Four Billion dollars is unaccounted for and is no inclination by the state to find who stole the money. To add insult to injury Governor Corizine asked for and got from his Democratic legislature another 3.8 Billion to be borrowed and frittered away like the first Eight Billion. The result of all the pension giveaways and bonding is NJ has almost 40 billion in debt and another 130 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Welcome to the garden state