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NEA Allocates Nearly $300,000 to Fund Progressive Activism Opposing Trump

The NEA folded its resolutions into the 2025–26 strategic budget, funding materials, protest support, civil rights programs, educator legal guidance, conferences.

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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.