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NEW AFFT REPORT: Michigan Teachers Earn About $66K. MEA’s Interim Executive Director Collected $301K.

Union spent nearly 69% of its budget on its own staff, holds $107 million in assets and directed 99% of its PAC political dollars to Democrats who advanced major gender-identity policies

NEW AFFT REPORT: NJEA Political Group Spent Nearly $40 Million Backing Union President’s Failed Run for Governor

Sean Spiller finished fifth in the Democratic primary as new AFFT analysis details NJEA’s $237 million stockpile, $65.6 million workforce costs and expansive political operation.

AFFT Exposes Union Ties to Minnesota Agency Faulted in $250 Million Fraud Scandal

New reports spotlight union political support for Walz, a former AFT executive’s appointment and the oversight failures surrounding money meant to feed children

Kentucky Students Struggle to Read and Do Math as Teachers’ Unions Sit on More Than $22 Million

New AFFT investigation finds $14.6 million in KEA investments and $7.5 million in JCTA reserves while roughly two-thirds of Jefferson County students are not proficient in reading and about seven in ten are not proficient in math

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NEW AFFT REPORT: Teachers Pour Millions Into Colorado’s Largest Union. CEA’s Spending Still Outruns Its Revenue

CEA spent 61% of its budget on its own staff, posted a fourth consecutive underlying shortfall and directed 99% of party-coded political spending to Democratic-aligned recipients

Randi Weingarten Told Penn Audience Government Wanted “All the Jewish Students.” The Court Record Says Otherwise.

At a Penn panel Tuesday, the AFT president described “primal” fear, invoked authoritarianism four times, attacked the Trump administration and ended with a message about voting.

New AFFT Report: Arkansas Teachers Union Spends Nearly Two-Thirds on Itself, Sits on $3.4 Million While Representation Spending Goes Undisclosed

AEA members are also connected to an NEA political operation that sent 100% of $41.36 million in super PAC committee contributions to Democratic-aligned groups

AFFT Launches “Fund Teachers, Not Randi” Campaign to Put Educators and Students First

New national transparency campaign contrasts the AFT president’s $585,188 in total reported compensation with the $74,495 national average teacher salary and gives public employees the receipts behind union spending priorities

Florida Teachers Are Walking Away From Their Union. New AFFT Report Shows Where the Money Goes

Florida Education Association lost nearly one in five members since 2020 as union filings reveal just 14.6% of spending went to representation.

AFFT Presents Inaugural Worker Freedom Awards to Utah Rep. Jordan Teuscher and Iowa Sen. Adrian Dickey

Liberty Bell awards recognize state leaders who advanced transparency, accountability and employee choice for public-sector workers.

Oklahoma Educators Get the Receipt: AFFT Releases “Where Do Your Dues Go?” Report on OEA

New analysis finds 58.1% of OEA’s FY 2025 budget went to compensation-related costs, while conferences and travel totaled $888,667