One “benefit” of the Covid-19 lockdowns was the public’s exposure to what is, or isn’t, going on in our schools. In just a few short years, the public has seen the outsize and pernicious influence of public-sector unions — nowhere more dramatically than in our schools.

The damage is nearly incalculable, and the money unions have to spend on such injury is enormous.

Unions take dollars in “dues money” from hard-working teachers and use it to finance a slew of politically driven efforts that have nothing to do with educating the nation’s children — many that actually harm them. Hard-left activist “teachers” are empowered to indoctrinate children in communist-style propaganda, while good teachers presenting a solid education are subverted.

And it shows: Large numbers of America’s children now loathe American values, and test results for reading and math reveal about half the nation’s kids fail to perform at grade level.

Worse, the unions are doubling down.

The National Education Association’s (NEA’s) annual financial report for fiscal year 2022-2023 reveals their troubling agenda. Tens of millions of dollars were apportioned back to each state’s union halls and to the political agendas of those who deplore American values. Additional millions were used to waylay successful charter schools and the desperate families flocking to them to escape dangerous, politicized, and failing government schools.

Millions more dollars........

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