The NEA’s strategy to retain members and, by extension, steady cash flow, relies on keeping teachers in the dark about the First Amendment rights affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME.
For the sixth year in a row, the National Education Association faces a mass exodus of members. But the blame doesn’t lie with a shrinking student population or loss of funding, as NEA president Becky Pringle would have you believe. The NEA’s blatant prioritization of a radical political agenda at the expense of member representation is the true culprit, resulting in a loss of more than 12,000 members in 2023, per the union’s latest financial report.
which firmly recognized the First Amendment right of public employees to leave union membership behind, accelerated this downward trend. The NEA’s strategy to retain members and, by extension, steady cash flow, relies on keeping teachers in the dark about the First Amendment rights affirmed in Janus.
Education International, which also received a $3 million check from NEA, aims to take the union’s left-wing priorities globally. NEA’s staff benefited from rising membership dues, too. NEA president Becky Pringle was paid $495,787 in 2023, $46,250 more than the prior year. By comparison, according to the NEA, the average starting teacher salary is $42,844.
If it were up to NEA, teachers would remain unaware of their right to walk away from a union that no longer serves them. Fortunately, my organization, the Freedom Foundation understands that, when teachers are properly informed about their First Amendment rights, they opt out of union membership by the hundreds of thousands. Which is exactly what’s happened to the NEA and other government unions for the past 6 years.
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