REPORT: Summer of Woke, The Sequel

Introduction

In 2022, DFI profiled the extremist ideology reflected in resolutions adopted at the summer meetings of the nation’s largest teacher unions, the National Education Association (“NEA”) and the American Federation of Teachers (“AFT”). One year later, the commitment of these interest groups to radical progressive ideology has not abated. This report profiles the latest outrageous policies discussed at this year’s NEA Representative Assembly and AFT “Together Educating America’s Children” (TEACH) Conference—neither of which is truly “representative” or focused on giving students the kind of education parents want and students deserve. By promoting measures that would embed radical gender ideology in our schools, require school systems to obsess over race-based preferences, remove school employees’ ability to discipline students effectively, and enlist teachers in efforts to indoctrinate students, the NEA and AFT have shown, yet again, that they do not represent the interests of the average teacher and will never serve as responsible stewards of an effective public K–12 education system.