California’s largest teachers’ union has poured unprecedented amounts of campaign dollars into local affiliates trying to boot conservative board members in school districts that have become battlegrounds for gender ideology policies, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of campaign finance disclosures.
The California Teachers Association has given some $213,000 to four local unions that are fighting to subvert or reverse school board policies that require officials to tell parents if their child begins socially transitioning at school, such as by adopting pronouns of the opposite sex and using opposite-sex bathrooms and changing rooms. The funding levels are multiple times higher than any union contributions those affiliates have previously received.
California Teachers Association president David Goldberg told EdSource last week that his group is fighting “white Christian nationalists” who want to mount a “fundamentalist attack on democracy.”
This cash infusion marks a new strategy for the Golden State’s most influential union, and highlights its intensifying role in the contentious campus culture wars raging across California. While the California Teachers Association perennially ranks as a top campaign and lobbying spender in the state, the group typically directs its large-dollar donations to its biggest and most influential members in Los Angeles and San Francisco, independent expenditure committees, and powerful statewide officials rather than unions in low-profile districts.
The California Teachers Association did not respond to a request for comment. Union critics, meanwhile, have noted the play. […]
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