A left-wing education nonprofit organization that the Washington Examiner recently found to be publishing classroom materials promoting political violence has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding, according to public records reviewed by the North American Values Institute. 

Teaching for Change, alongside allied nonprofit organization Rethinking Schools, runs the Zinn Education Project. The project, named for late socialist academic Howard Zinn, has published classroom materials containing praise of violent organizations, riots, and other illegal activity oriented toward left-wing political goals. Despite this, the D.C. municipal government and the federally-funded Smithsonian Institution have doled out large grants to Teaching for Change in recent years.