Data from Americans for Fair Treatment was featured in the National Review:
Weingarten recently rose to a new level of audacity by shifting the blame for the school-staffing crisis on Republicans, who, she claims, politicized public education by creating an environment that drove the teacher shortage. This is ironic, to say the least, given AFT’s allocation of 30 percent of its 2020–21 expenditures to politics, totaling $48.4 million in political activities and another $5.9 million in contributions. And they’re only second to the National Education Association (NEA), which devotes nearly 50 percent of its expenses to political endeavors, according to research from Americans for Fair Treatment.