July 7, 2022 3:39pm EDT
NEA teachers union spending 140K for 'enemies list' opposition research of groups turning up heat on schools
An NEA member told Fox News Digital that the teachers' union has 'no ability to tolerate somebody who doesn't agree with them'
By Hannah Grossman | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX – The National Education Association passed a resolution during their annual Representative Assembly in Chicago that would allocate thousands of dollars to conduct opposition research on 25 organizations that are supposedly attacking gender identity and sexual orientation freedoms in public schools.
"NEA shall compile research to create fact sheets about the largest 25 organizations that are actively working to diminish a students' right to honesty in education, freedom of sexual and gender identify, and teacher autonomy," the resolution said. NEA's resolutions are called new business items (NBI) and represent the teachers' union's opinions and beliefs. They also open the door to funding.
The cost for compiling the list and for the research would amount to $140,625, NBI 15 said. The research will include probing into groups' funding sources, the leaders of the organizations, "connections to known entities that are seeking to dismantle public education, organization headquarters and chapter locations."
Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education told Fox News Digital that she was very concerned about the resolution. "It’s not surprising that the unions would compile an ‘enemies list,'" she said.
"[The NEA's] policies are deeply unpopular with average American families - and, I suspect, with many of their rank-and-file membership - which means that they must enforce their ideology through bullying and intimidation. We will not be bullied, we will not be cowed, and we will not be silenced - we will continue to advocate for our children, because the past two years have made it abundantly clear that children’s welfare is the unions’ absolute last priority."
The research on the 25 organizations will be sent out to state affiliates so that they can be "armed with information to organize against attacks on public education."
"They're not just trying to change culture, they're trying to change what it means to be human," a retired union member, Jeralee Smith, told Fox News Digital. "They have no ability to tolerate somebody who doesn't agree with them."
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