Just speaking as someone in the trenches of our public schools - the union which is supposed to represent me is a cancer on the body politic. Destroying the NEA would be a good first step toward making our schools work again.
[The NEA is] “the nation’s leading advocates for public education and the type of liberal social and economic agenda that these groups find objectionable.”
Even a liberal ought to ask why the NEA concerns itself with a "social and economic agenda" and doesn't stick to the task of representing teachers in the workplace, which is its charge.
True not just with the NEA but with all unions. Unions give nearly all their money to Democrats so the more union members the more money to give, money taken from members paychecks. That is why Democrats favor bigger government as government workers are forced to be union members.
That is also why they want card check, to force even more people to put money into liberal coffers.
Others of the same ilk are the race hustlers like Jackson, Sharpton, ACORN, NAACP, and those flying under false colors like the ACLU, the National Council of Churches, etc.
They all claim to champion a cause and they make a lot of money from it, much of which they donate to the Democrats. Yet, the problems they claim to be solving never get solved but instead get worse. Why? No problem, no money.
Our enemies, the Left/Democrats, have always found a way to get honest, hard working Americans to fund their effort to destroy us. You rarely find them in regular free enterprise jobs but mostly in government or government sponsored NGAs.
As in most cases, follow the money.