With a tip of the hat to Neal Boortz, we can finally say with some authority that the NEA is indeed a hard left organization that isn't all that interested in educating your children. Here's
Neal:
You just have to read this article from today's Wall Street Journal. It's about our nation's largest teacher's union, the National Education Association (NEA). For years the NEA fought hard to prevent the implementation of a rule that would require them to make the records of their political contributions public. They lost, and now you can go to this web site to get all of the details. But wait! The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has saved you the trouble. Here are some of the details:
The NEA gave away more than $65 million dollars last year, virtually all of it to leftist, liberal groups. We're talking groups like Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Amnesty International. There was a donation of $15,000 (chump change to the NEA) to the Human Rights Campaign, This group, you may remember, lobbies for "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights". How special. The Fund to Protect Social Security got $400,000. There was also money spent to fight charter schools in Florida and to help "redirect Florida politics in a more progressive, Democratic direction."
Oh ... and then there's this. The WSJ article also reminds us of just what these union officials earn. The NEA has about 600 employees. Their payroll is $58 million. That makes the average NEA salary about $96,670 a year. How many teachers make this much? Not many. The average teacher salary is $48,000. Reg Weaver, the president of the NEA, makes $439,000 a year. Over one-half of the NEA employees make over $100,000 a year.
Disgusted? Sure you are. And you can rest assured that there are thousands of government school teachers out there who will be just as outraged as you when they learn how their dues money is being spent. Remember --- the most effective first step we could possibly take to improve the quality of government education in this country would be to eliminate the teacher's unions. Tomorrow wouldn't be too early.
That about sums it up...
