Overview
- NEA has incorporated its new resolutions into the 2025–26 strategic budget, earmarking between $1,500 and $209,025 across six targeted activism initiatives.
- It earmarked $3,500 to produce materials branding President Trump’s programs and actions as “fascist” in official NEA communications.
- The union committed $32,500 to support student protests against ICE raids and deportations and $1,500 to back broader mass democratic movements like “No Kings.”
- Resolutions include $34,500 to defend birthright citizenship and $2,000 to oppose efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
- A $209,025 allocation will fund educator resources, “Know Your Rights” legal guides and “Speak Up, Speak Out” LGBTQ+ conferences following the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling.