All that union spending, however, has not helped improve student achievement.The report, issued by the national grassroots group Defending Education, which promotes quality non-political education, examined the political expenditures of selected state and local teacher unions over a 10-year period starting from 2015.
UNIVERSITIES CANNOT SURVIVE AS LEFT-WING ECHO CHAMBERS
In its analysis of spending by union political action committees, Defending Education looked at the California Teachers Association PACs, plus similar PACs of teacher unions in Chicago, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Washington.
According to the report, the CTA PACs spent a staggering $106.4 million funding mostly liberal and partisan causes and candidates. To put that amount into perspective, the CTA spent five times more than the New York State United Teachers PAC and 20 times more than the Michigan Education Association PAC.
Emphasizing the disparity in spending even more, CTA has around 310,000 members, while the New York State United Teachers has around 600,000 members. That means that if we use those figures as the rough membership numbers for the period of the report, then the CTA spent $343 per member versus $34 per NYSUT member — that’s a big difference.
