The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers’ union, enjoys a rare privilege: a federal charter, granted by Congress in 1906 — the only labor union to hold that distinction.
But leaked resolutions from its 2025 annual meeting, shared with us by a dismayed union member, reveal an organization that has traded its educational mission for blatant political activism.
Congress must revoke the NEA’s federal charter to signal its disgust at the union’s taxpayer-backed assault on students, parents and common sense.
The NEA’s annual convention in Portland, Ore. last week produced resolutions that read like a progressive battle plan — not a roadmap for better schools.
In a moment of peak parody, one approved resolution committed spending $3,500 of union money on “using the term facism in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.”
Yes, the teachers union misspelled “fascism” while applying that label to the duly elected