About 70 percent of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), together represent about 4.7 million members. Politically, according to a study by Pew Research, about 58 percent of public school K-12 teachers identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, compared with about 35 percent who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.

Last year, NEA President Rebecca Pringle told a Philadelphia public radio station that her organization’s membership is “nearly evenly split between Democrats, Republicans and independents.” But the union’s leadership does not reflect the diversity of its membership; it donates the vast majorit

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