Empower Educators and Restore Academic Focus by Supporting Union Alternatives

More than 10,000 educators have joined the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a new national organization positioning itself as an alternative to traditional teachers’ unions.
In the year since it launched, thousands of teachers are “rejecting the failed leadership of teachers’ unions,” the alliance said in a release first shared with The Lion. “For decades, union bosses have used taxpayer-funded resources to advance political agendas while American classrooms have suffered the consequences. Now, teachers are pushing back.”
The alliance is the only national organization mobilizing educators at scale to challenge the grip unions – chiefly the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers – have maintained over public education. Stories abound of union members facing discrimination, sanctions and pressure for questioning policies that almost exclusively favor leftist policies and politicians.
“The era of union bosses speaking for every educator in America is coming to an end,” said Ryan Walters, TFA’s CEO and a former Oklahoma state superintendent. “For too long, union leadership has abused taxpayer money to push political activism instead of supporting good teachers and strong classrooms.”