Senators Want Answers on NEA’s Opposition Research Program Targeting Critical Race Theory Opponents

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Three Republican senators are challenging National Education Association (NEA) President Rebecca Pringle to explain why her union is mounting a nationwide effort such as the one that sparked a parents’ revolt against critical race theory (CRT) in Loudoun County, Virginia.

“We write regarding New Business Item 2 and New Business Item 39, which were considered and adopted during the National Education Association' s (NEA) 2021 Representative Assembly,” the senators wrote in a letter to Pringle made public on July 20.