Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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The National Education Association (NEA) – the largest labor union in the United States with more than three million members – adopted business items at this year’s “Representative Assembly” that accused President Donald Trump of governing America through “fascism” and “authoritarianism,” along with openly promoting gender ideology in the classroom.
The event was held in Portland, Oregon, from July 3 to July 6 behind closed doors. The proceedings were never meant to be made public, but school choice and parental rights advocate Corey DeAngelis received a copy of the resolutions that the NEA passed and shared images of the documents on X.
One business item saw NEA members vote “to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term fascism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.” The NEA is designating an additional $3,500 for the cost of this item.
Additionally, the NEA passed a business item “to oppose any move to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interests of the billionaires.” The Trump administration is notably in the process of drastically reducing the size of the federal Department of Education and returning the power to set education policy to the states.
In another adopted business item, NEA members voted to declare support for the “participation in the mass democratic movement against Trump’s authoritarianism and violations of human rights.” This includes supporting the “No Kings” movement. The NEA will allocate $1,500 to carry out this objective. The organization also voted to support student protests against the Trump administration.
DeAngelis mentioned that this was not the first time the NEA’s votes were controversial. “Back in 2019, the teachers’ union DEFEATED a business item to ‘rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America,’” he wrote.
The expenses increased significantly for other resolutions passed at the NEA’s conference. In one noteworthy expense, the NEA will now “defend birthright citizenship and opposes the attempt to revert to pre-civil rights movement–Jim Crow–legal concepts of ‘states rights’ in order to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants.” This will cost the union $34,500.
Another adopted resolution specifically targeted the case Mahmoud v. Taylor that saw the Supreme Court rule that parents have a right under the First Amendment’s religious liberty clause to opt their children out of controversial lessons covering issues such as homosexuality, transgenderism, and far-left gender theory.
As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, the NEA will spend $209,025 to create a sample resolution for school boards to adopt to “protect” educators who want to teach LGBTQ issues, create a “Know Your Rights” document, and hold “Speak Up, Speak Out” LGBTQ conferences. In other words, the NEA is actively working to undermine the Supreme Court’s ruling and continue peddling far-left ideology to young children.
Rounding out the slate of liberal activism, NEA also adopted a resolution to “not use, endorse, or publicize any materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),” an organization founded to fight antisemitism.
The developments from this year’s conference are just the latest instance of progressive political activism from the NEA. In January, before Trump took office again for his second term, the NEA hosted a series of webinars for teachers explaining that “we were born for this moment” to push back against the incoming administration. These webinars covered issues such as “defending LGBTQ+ civil rights” and protecting illegal aliens from immigration enforcement.
When Linda McMahon was under consideration to be the Department of Education’s next secretary, the NEA also encouraged senators to vote “no” on her confirmation. The Senate still confirmed McMahon as secretary in a 51-45 vote on March 3. The NEA also endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election, saying that she is a “strong believer in racial justice.”
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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