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Inside teachers’ union May Day ‘dress rehearsal’ critics warn will ‘groom’ students into Dem ‘foot soldiers’
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A recent webinar hosted by some of the top teachers’ unions in the United States that pushed a curriculum focused on the upcoming May Day protests is prompting education experts and watchdogs to sound the alarm about alleged political indoctrination inside classrooms.
The Chicago Teachers’ Union and the National Education Association collaborated with the Zinn Education Project on an April 2nd seminar referred to as a «curriculum build» to «bring «social justice into the classroom» ahead of May Day, the traditional May 1st holiday that has long been embraced by communist and socialist movements as a day of mass political action.
«There’s probably gonna be a lot worse things that Trump does, and so May Day is a dress rehearsal for maybe there’s a random day in, you know, June that we all are, like, no work, no school, no shopping, because of something Pete just did, right?» Dave Stieber, a history teacher in Chicago Public Schools, said during the presentation.
«So this is a continuation and a buildup of that.»
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Students across the U.S. protested immigration enforcement, causing some districts to close for the day in light of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Student coalitions held a «National Shutdown» on Jan. 30 and continued to protest through Feb. 3. (Getty Images)
The webinar also included guidance on how educators could bring activism into the classroom, including with very young students, with speakers who encouraged lessons centered on activism for children as young as three, presenting such engagement as a way to build early awareness and participation.
«I did want to say I really encourage teachers of young children not to feel like this is stuff that’s way beyond their students, not to be afraid of raising up social justice issues, including workers’ rights, anti-racism, pro LGBT, LGBTQIA plus issues, immigration and immigrants rights,» Kirstin Roberts, a pre-school teacher in Chicago Public Schools, says in the seminar.
The North American Values Institute (NAVI), who first posted the seminar online, argues that the unions are attempting to «groom» students to push social justice platforms in protests across the United States including on May Day.
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«The webinar demonstrates clearly that our teacher unions view students as foot soldiers in their political and ideological battles and the classroom as an appropriate venue to wage their war,» Mika Hackner, director of research at NAVI, told Fox News Digital.
During the seminar, one of the lessons on «May Day curriculum building» focuses on making the upcoming protest look less «scary» to children.
«In this lesson, we really want to introduce the idea that there’s going to be marches and protests on Mayday,» Roberts says.
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Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, are pictured together. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for March For Our Lives)
«Sometimes those are made to look really scary on the news and so we, or in social media, and so we want to share images with our children of protests that lifts up the beauty and the humanity of the people involved.»
The Chicago Teachers’ Union, which has been pushing for schools to be closed on May Day, has long faced criticism for pushing far-left political agenda items in the classroom and encouraging teachers to take to the streets in opposition to the Trump administration.
Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported that CTU appears poised to spend a substantial amount of money on «political activities» to the tune of $3.1 million dollars.
In January, CTU members filmed themselves protesting federal immigration enforcement and anti-DEI measures at a local Target, sparking criticism both online and from experts.
«It’s very clear that teachers unions seek to destroy our country by turning our students against it,» Teacher Freedom Alliance CEO Ryan Walters told Fox News Digital.
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«The Chicago Teachers Union is one of the worst. The fact that they are targeting students as young as 3 years old with this anti-American propaganda should be criminal. The teachers unions will continue to use students as Marxist pawns until we have driven them out of our schools.»
The NEA has found itself facing criticism over political activism in recent months as well which Fox News Digital has extensively reported on, including federal labor filings in January that showed the nation’s largest teacher’s union funneling millions to far-left activist groups, ballot initiatives and social justice organizations.
«They don’t care about the students, they care about pushing these leftist, liberal Democrat people [politicians] so that they can get more money and just fund all these stupid initiatives,» an NEA whistleblower told Fox News Digital in January.
Fox News Digital reached out to the NEA, CTU, Chicago Public Schools, and Zinn Project for comment.
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Letitia James faces scrutiny after New York City spends $81,700 per homeless person amid shelter scandals
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New York Attorney General candidate Saritha Komatireddy is accusing Letitia James of failing to hold New York’s nonprofit homeless shelter providers accountable despite years of audits, investigations and scandals involving billions of taxpayer dollars.
The criticism comes as a New York State Comptroller report in March found New York City spent roughly $81,700 per unsheltered homeless person in fiscal year 2025, with spending on street homelessness more than tripling since 2019 as the city’s homeless population climbed 78%.
Komatireddy described the situation as a crisis, arguing that government spending has surged while outcomes have deteriorated.
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«So there really are questions about what has happened to that money and why that’s happening,» Komatireddy told Fox News Digital. «The person who should be asking those questions, the person who should be investigating, is the attorney general. But Letitia James has totally failed New Yorkers when it comes to holding homeless shelter nonprofits accountable so that they actually help the homeless.»
Her criticism follows years of investigations by the New York City Department of Investigation, the New York State Comptroller and federal prosecutors that uncovered allegations of fraud, self-dealing, kickbacks, conflicts of interest, excessive executive compensation and weak financial oversight at organizations operating city-funded homeless shelters.
Among the highest-profile cases was that of Bronx Parent Housing Network CEO Victor Rivera, who was accused by at least 10 women in a 2021 New York Times investigation of sexual assault or unwanted sexual conduct while they lived in shelters operated by his nonprofit.
Weeks later, Rivera was federally indicted on conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges tied to an alleged kickback scheme. He pleaded not guilty.
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A 2024 Department of Investigation review found nepotism, lack of competitive bidding and exorbitant salaries were issues among 51 city-funded shelter providers, including executives earning salaries approaching or exceeding $1 million. The report specifically noted that the attorney general has authority under New York law to challenge improper transactions involving nonprofit organizations.
State Comptroller audits also identified millions of dollars in unsupported or improper costs at several nonprofit shelter providers, including CAMBA, Westhab, the Institute for Community Living and Samaritan Daytop Village, with follow-up audits finding that many recommendations remained unimplemented.
Komatireddy argued those repeated findings should have prompted broader action by the attorney general’s Charities Bureau, which is responsible for overseeing nonprofit organizations in New York.
A homeless man sleeps on a New York City street alongside his possessions. The AG’s office has publicly announced only a handful of enforcement actions involving nonprofit homeless shelter providers. (Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
«The amount of money that’s being spent is really shocking,» she said. «We know that at least one homeless shelter CEO received a million dollars in compensation. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are sleeping on the streets.»
«It’s the attorney general’s job to audit and investigate the homeless shelter nonprofits,» she continued. «We have a Charities Bureau in the attorney general’s office whose responsibility is to oversee and supervise all nonprofits in the state, but Letitia James has not been doing that job.»
James’ office has publicly announced only a handful of enforcement actions involving nonprofit homeless shelter providers during her tenure.
Among them were a 2022 settlement with HELP USA requiring governance reforms following a Charities Bureau investigation into conflict-of-interest issues involving former CEO Alan Altheide and a 2023 lawsuit seeking to dissolve Housing Bridge Inc., alleging its executives diverted charitable assets for personal benefit.
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FILE – Republican candidate for New York Attorney General Saritha Komatireddy called for audits of every homeless shelter nonprofit that receives taxpayer funding. (Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images))
Komatireddy called for audits of every homeless shelter nonprofit that receives taxpayer funding.
«We need to audit and investigate every homeless shelter nonprofit in New York,» she said. «Make sure the people who are doing a good job are supported, the people doing a bad job are cut off from taxpayer money, and the people committing crimes are prosecuted and put in jail.»
The homeless shelter criticism is the latest in a broader campaign argument from Komatireddy that James has failed to aggressively police taxpayer-funded fraud.
Earlier this year, Komatireddy criticized James’ oversight of New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit after federal officials suspended its funding, alleging the attorney general had adopted «a deliberate leadership choice» to pursue fewer criminal fraud cases and allow investigations to languish.
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James’ campaign rejected the criticism.
«Saritha Komatireddy’s latest line of attack is as hollow as her record of public service,» a campaign spokesperson said. «While Saritha is busy playing politics, New York Attorney General Letitia James has spent over two decades working hand-in-hand with government partners across New York City and state to protect homeless New Yorkers and hold bad actors accountable.»
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GOP lawmaker demands answers after Smithsonian chief urged moving beyond ‘America First mentality’
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Rep. Mike Carey, R-Ohio, grilled Smithsonian leadership at a hearing on Wednesday on why the National Museum of American History (NMAH) had dropped mention of «American history» from its mission statement in
«You explained that the museum removed the phrase ‘American history’ from the mission statement in order to help people ‘to get out of the America-first mentality,’ Carey said, posing his question to Anthea Hartig, NMAH administrator.
«What did you mean by America-first?» he asked.
Carey’s line of questioning, made during a Committee on House Administration hearing on Wednesday, comes as Republicans in Congress have made preserving America’s heritage a proxy for larger struggles over national identity and cultural values.
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From left, Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History, Mike Gonzalez, Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and Matthew Spalding, professor in constitutional government and dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government, testify during the House Oversight and Government Reform Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing titled «Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past,» in Rayburn building on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Progressive thinkers, such as Hartig, have argued that keeping the darker parts of American history in view should inform an understanding of the country’s past — and help set its policy direction in the present.
In response, many Republican lawmakers have voiced deep unrest over efforts to characterize the U.S. as marked by oppression or slavery — such as the New York Times’ 1619 Project. Many conservatives have argued that the American ideals, laid out in documents like the Declaration of Independence, transcend even the country’s most blatant failures to live up to those aspirations; that they are anything but definitive of the American experience.
The conversation has also taken on a new focus in President Donald Trump’s second term as the administration has pulled out all the stops in celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary.
With calls to «Make America great again» and put «America first,» the administration released a report called «Saving America’s Story.»
That report highlighted the American History Museum’s decision to change its mission statement and called out Hartig specifically.
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National Museum of American History Director Dr. Anthea Hartig is sworn in during an Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing on Capitol Hill on July 21, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«That shift from history to activism is clearly documented in this report. Anthea Hartig, NMAH’s director since 2019, has explicitly stated that she sees history as a ‘prime tool of social justice’ and one of her roles as connecting ‘research and scholarship to activism and advocacy,’» the report stated.
The report also details how Hartig had explained the change to NMAH’s mission statement in a 2024 presentation to a group of undergraduate and graduate history students.
«It’s hard to get out of the ‘America First’ mentality …It’s just that, and why we changed our mission when I first came,» Hartig said. «I think it’s a big challenge, especially going into 2026, which will be the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 25th year since 9/11, the fifth year since January 6th.»
Speaking before the committee on Wednesday, Hartig defended her view, claiming that she had not tried to make history a matter of activism through her leadership at NMAH.
«The museum does not take sides in America’s political debates. We preserve and document the evidence of American life in all its breadth, so that the public can encounter the past and draw their own conclusions,» she stated.
«When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we do not mean erasing it. We mean adding the evidence, voices and objects that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves in the national story. Examining the harder chapters of our history is not the same as hostility toward America.»
But Carey, alongside other Republicans, appeared unconvinced.
«‘The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.’» Carey cautioned, quoting George Orwell’s cautionary book on authoritarianism, 1984.
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WELLINGTON, OHIO – JUNE 26: Mike Carey speaks at a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump after receiving his endorsement on June 26, 2021, in Wellington, Ohio. Carey is running for a seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District. This is Trump’s first rally since leaving office. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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«Let me get back to my original question — why do you think that ‘American history’ should be erased from the American History museum?» Carey added.
Hartig, pressed for time, did not give a response.
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