redstate.com By Becky Noble
More and more American parents are getting fed up with the public school system. They are sick and tired of liberal teachers indoctrinating their children with things like transgender ideology, critical race theory, and climate change. One thing that might have swayed the votes of those parents is President-elect Donald Trump considering abolishing the Department of Education and bringing the task of educating our children back down to the local and state levels. Now, the nation’s two largest teachers unions and some left-wing news outlets might have just given us more proof that that might be a great idea.
Teachers Unions don’t care about teachers or students.
— Briscoe Cain (@BriscoeCain) November 21, 2024
According to recent financial disclosures by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), three liberal publications — The New Republic, American Prospect, and Courier Newsroom — have collectively accepted roughly $905,000 since 2022. The problem was that after receiving the cash from the Teachers’ unions, the outlets failed to disclose the payments and published positive articles about the unions. Courier Newsroom, which runs outlets in 11 states, including those considered swing states during this year’s presidential election, received $500,000 from the NEA and $35,000 from the AFT between 2022 and 2024. Again, all the outlets ran positive coverage of the NEA.
For just a sampling of Courier’s work, their North Carolina outlet, Cardinal & Pine, back in March, featured a video with NEA President Rebecca Pringle, explaining why it is important to teach America’s school children that the U.S. is systemically racist. What was missing? If you guessed disclosing the fact that the outlet had been given around $550,000 in just the span of a few years, you would be right.
In New Hampshire, the Courier outlet Granite Post took the side of the NEA and AFT while covering a court battle involving book bans in the classroom. In Virginia, the Courier outlet Dogwood somehow concluded that collective bargaining backed by the NEA helped students learn better. Once again, financial activities between the union and the news outlets were never disclosed.
What’s the one thing all of these outlets have in common? Mike Watson is research director at the Capital Research Center and says the answer to that is:
“All these outlets rely on patronage and advertising from ideologically aligned donors and groups to stay afloat, so, of course, the teachers unions are supporting their ideological allies.”
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