Teachers have a lot to learn from Trump’s education secretary

Education Secretary Linda McMahon tells teachers they can opt out of union dues, citing 2018 Supreme Court ruling that ended mandatory payments for public employees.

Look at the NEA's annual convention in Portland, Ore. Their resolutions read more like a declaration of war on the Trump administration than an education policy meeting.  DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and a senior advisor at Accuracy in Media. He is the author of "The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools."

If public school teachers are tired of their hard-earned money funding radical agendas, it's time for them to opt out and take back control of their paychecks.

Teachers unions like the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) aren't prioritizing educators or their students. They're bloated bureaucracies more interested in politics than pedagogy. Take the NEA – less than 10% of its more than $400 million annual budget actually goes toward representing teachers in the workplace.