You would think the Nevada State Education Association, the state’s teachers union, would be concerned about raising literacy rates, improving academic outcomes, and generally being good teachers.
Instead, the union’s affiliated super PAC is spending its financial resources on suing the state of Nevada for striking a deal with the Oakland Athletics to build a new baseball stadium in Las Vegas as part of the team’s plan to move to Sin City in four years.
The union is arguing that the law passed to subsidize the building of the new stadium violates the Nevada Constitution and will “decrease money allocated to public school employees and students” if the court does not block the law from taking effect.
“This litigation continues our work to support public education and oppose the diversion of public money for private or corporate use,” the union said in a statement. “Strong Public Schools Nevada is in solidarity with our sister committee, Schools Over Stadiums, which is pursuing a referendum to ensure hundreds of millions in public money goes to essential services like public education.”
Now, it is perfectly reasonable to oppose state government efforts to subsidize stadiums for billionaires like Athletics owner John Fisher. Sports franchises generate billions of dollars in annual revenue, and their owners are perfectly capable of building their own stadiums. But to claim that such a subsidy is going to defund public schools is absurd.
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The Nevada teachers union is not concerned about the well-being of public school students. Rather, it is trying to distract from its own failures, which include the catastrophic learning loss wrought by the union’s refusal to reopen schools in 2020. What the union is really afraid of is continuing to lose money as public school enrollment declines and there are fewer teachers to exploit for dues.
By wasting precious resources on a frivolous lawsuit, the Nevada State Education Association is once again proving that there are no teachers unions that advocate the good of students. If they did, they would put their money where their mouth is and dedicate those resources to addressing the learning loss that they created.
