Freedom Foundation CEO
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Standing with Israel means standing for free speech, women’s rights, and the basic values that hold free societies together.
I SUPPORT WESTERN CIVILIZATION,
I SUPPORT HUMANITY.
I SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
I SUPPORT WOMEN.
I SUPPORT FREEDOM.
I SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
THAT IS WHY I SUPPORT ISRAEL 🇮🇱
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Public-sector unions have a built-in incentive to grow government and raise taxes, and the Yale Political Union agreed with that argument 35-25. It was refreshing to have an actual debate where people listened instead of shutting the conversation down.
My write-up on how taxpayers scored an Ivy League win, courtesy of the Daily Wire: dailywire.com/news/my-debate…
Teachers who leave their union are finding real professional support that actually helps them do their jobs: liability coverage and training free of political agendas.
Liability insurance. Professional development free of DEI and left-wing bias. TFA CEO @RyanWalters_ told @glennbeck on @BlazeTV what good teachers get when they leave the union and join TFA.
New York decided parents don’t need to see how schools are actually performing on AP exams, and the rankings took a nosedive for high-achieving schools like Success Academy as a result. When unions control the system, the first priority is protecting their power, not letting taxpayers and families see the results.
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What is New York hiding? How teachers unions are rigging school rankings | OP-ED by Aaron Withe, CEO of Freedom Foundation.
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Schools exist to teach kids reading, writing, and math, not to spread political agendas. Teachers who want their classrooms back can start by opting out of the union and keeping more of their own paycheck.
Schools should be educating kids, not pushing agendas. Take back public education by opting out of your union.
@Freedom4Teachrs @realsienarose
Idaho just stopped using the state as a debt collector for the teachers' union, which means more money stays in teachers’ paychecks and less flows into the big union machine.
Another successful Freedom Foundation endeavor has resulted in taxpayer funding being but from teachers’ unions in Idaho.
After House Bill 516 took effect on July 1, the Idaho Education Association (IEA) was forced to re-evaluate their budget now that the state will no longer operate as a debt-collector and will be cutting about 13% of its staff and closing all regional offices outside of Boise.
Another win for protecting teachers’ paychecks and stopping the taxpayer slush fund into unions. 🔥
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Here’s an idea: teach kids to be literate, not activists.
@MrDanielBuck @Freedom4Teachrs @realsienarose
Teachers deserve fair pay, but more money will not fix our schools until we know how much is actually reaching the classroom instead of top-heavy administration.
How much money is actually going to the classroom? How much money goes to top-heavy administrative staff who rarely set foot in a classroom?
Teachers deserve fair pay, recognition, and support for their work. But the problems in our schools won’t be solved by throwing more money at them. We need to ask where that money is going and whether it’s actually helping teachers and students.
@JoseMelendezTX @TPPF
New York is keeping AP exam results out of school rankings and calling it “privacy,” so teachers' unions can hide how badly they're failing students.
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Unions are supposed to bargain over pay and working conditions, not echo Tehran's talking points while actual Iranian teachers get locked up for demanding fair wages.
🧵Your union already agrees with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, just wrote a 25-page letter to American voters weeks before the midterms. It calls the White House a “factory of lies” and claims “Death to America” is really just a prayer against Washington.
Most Americans will ignore it, but teachers' unions are bound to endorse much of it. In July, Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution demanding “an immediate end to the war with Iran" and called on the U.S. and Israel to halt military operations against them.
At the same convention, delegates passed a resolution blaming Israel for salary problems among teachers in Palestinian Authority territory.
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Government unions have used their dues to elect officials who grow the public payroll, and that cycle started when Kennedy made collective bargaining legal in the public sector.
Unionization of government workers became legal under President John F. Kennedy, the first president elected with unions’ financial backing and campaign support in exchange for a return on that investment.
That opened a cycle in which government unions collect dues from public employees and use the money to elect radical liberal officials. Those officials then raise taxes on the private sector to grow government, generating still more dues for the unions’ reelection campaigns.
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🧵Your union already agrees with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, just wrote a 25-page letter to American voters weeks before the midterms. It calls the White House a “factory of lies” and claims “Death to America” is really just a prayer against Washington.
Most Americans will ignore it, but teachers' unions are bound to endorse much of it. In July, Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution demanding “an immediate end to the war with Iran" and called on the U.S. and Israel to halt military operations against them.
At the same convention, delegates passed a resolution blaming Israel for salary problems among teachers in Palestinian Authority territory.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard just wrote a letter to American voters telling them to cut off Israel and close our bases overseas.
Most people will ignore it, but if you’re a teacher paying union dues, parts of it might sound pretty familiar. Randi Weingarten’s AFT passed a resolution demanding an immediate end to the Iran war, and the Chicago Teachers Union sponsored a “Hands Off Iran” protest earlier this year.
Tehran is jailing its own teachers for speaking up, yet union leaders here are echoing its demands instead of focusing on classrooms.
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Yale students heard the evidence that these unions help elect the officials they bargain with, spend workers’ money on politics without consent, and correlate with worse outcomes for kids, then voted 35-25 in favor of the ban.
That result shows young people will side with freedom and taxpayers over forced union power when the case is made clearly.
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No public employee should feel held hostage by a union they never agreed to join.
“I never signed to be in a union in the first place. It’s like I’m being held hostage.”
Shequita Chamberlain, a home healthcare worker in California, has been trying to leave SEIU 2015 since 2021. For a union that claims to listen to its members and champion their needs, that's unacceptable. To this day, the only people who have responded to her are the Freedom Foundation.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones now admits she feels her daughter was cheated after sending her to a failing NYC public school that spends over $50,000 per pupil yet fails to check work or teach basic skills.
@DeAngelisCorey is right that teachers unions are the ones blocking charter expansions and school choice to protect their dues and power while families are trapped in these systems.
Read Corey's full op-ed here:
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Aaron Withe retweeted
BREAKING: California’s new test scores are in, and they’re damning. Just 49.3% of students met state English standards this spring, and only 38.4% were proficient in math. That means more than half of California’s 5.4 million students can’t read at grade level.
That’s what you get when teachers’ unions care more about politics and organizing than reading and math. 🧐
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Union leaders aren't hiding it: they see their members as foot soldiers for the radical left.
SEIU President April Verrett has made clear that she views the union as a political machine, a source of money and manpower to elect Democrats, not a vehicle for representing the workers who pay its dues.
BREAKING: SEIU President April Verrett admits her union’s top priority is political organizing and funding democrats. Calling it the "largest member-led political program in the history of our union."
When asked what SEIU is doing for the upcoming election cycle, Verrett says she is, "super incredibly proud of the $100 million our members have invested in this cycle. But even more than the money, I'm super proud of the 1 million of our members that have been activated across more than 30 states."
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Another problem in education we can trace back to teachers' unions. Union activists in schools take kids out of classrooms to go protest cultural battles like "ICE Out" or "No Kings."
To a union, it's more important that your 5 year old knows how to make a No Kings sign, than it is that they know their fractions.
