Lest anyone doubt that the national education unions are a major cause of the current crisis of learning, a new report from the Defense of Freedom Institute removes all uncertainty.

Written by DFI President Bob Eitel, a former senior counselor to the secretary of education, and DFI Policy Counsel Paul Zimmerman, the report is aptly called The AFT’s and the NEA’s Summer of Woke. (The acronyms stand for the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.) Referring to the two unions, the DFI report indicates that “the policy statements and resolutions adopted by their leadership at national meetings last month demonstrate how little they care for the average student or teacher and classroom learning.”

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