As this Wall Street Journal editorial makes clear today, the NEA acts as an ATM machine for a wide array of leftist policy organizations. You can read it here.
If teachers really want to belong to a group that uses money they pay to it for purposes such as helping to lobby for minimum wage increases, nothing should stop them. In many states, however, they have to fork money over to their state NEA affiliates if they want to keep their jobs. The root of the evil here isn’t money — it’s coercion.
