Federal watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a complaint on Dec. 1 alleging that a top Department of Education (DOE) official gave “privileged access and undue influence” in the department’s policymaking process to the National Education Association (NEA), the teacher’s union where she was previously employed.
“As insidious as the teachers’ unions influence on the school reopening guidance was—unnecessarily keeping kids out of schools, which we now know resulted in tragic learning loss and mental health deterioration on an entire generation of students—it’s even worse than we thought,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain said in a Friday press release announcing the complaint.
