STATEMENT: PDE Action Supports STUDENT Act

Parents Defending Education Action is proud to support the 2025 Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today (STUDENT) Act.

Congress chartered the National Education Association (NEA) in the early Twentieth Century with the expectation that it would engage in the noble and civic minded mission of promoting the interests of the teaching profession and the cause of education. Yet, the NEA today behaves like a political organization, devoted to advancing the extreme ideological agenda of the Left and the political interests of the Democrat Party.

Through its advocacy, the NEA aggressively seeks to impose in our schools racial division and confrontation, gender ideology and other radical culturally Marxist ideas. Moreover, through its political action committee, it raises money and campaigns for Democrat candidates. It’s safe to say, that if Congress would have anticipated what the NEA would become, it would have never granted them a charter.

While it may be tempting for Congress to repeal the NEA’s charter, the reality is that doing so would not have any real practical effect. It makes more sense to amend the charter to ensure the NEA is fully depoliticized and operates to serve all Americans without any bias like every other federally chartered entity such as the U.S. Olympic Committee and the American Red Cross.

-Alfonso Aguilar, Director of Federal Affairs, PDE Action

You can read the full text of the bill here and the press release here.