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An investigation by a national organization that exposes harmful agendas in American schools has found that the National Education Association (NEA) has provided more than $1.7 million in funding to a group planning a May Day “coordinated day of action” that will include public school “walk-ins.”
Defending Education reported Thursday its investigation into the discovery of a “May Day 2026 Host Toolkit” that includes “training information for a ‘coordinated day of action’ that demands taxing the rich, removal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and ‘expanding democracy;’ it also promotes tactics such as a school ‘walk-in’ where participants enter a building to ‘protest harmful school conditions and policies.’”
The flier for the May 1 event suggests the following for a school “walk-in” that, organizers say, should “prioritize visibility and the core message: Workers Over Billionaires: We Have the Power”:
During school walk-ins, parents, educators, and students, along with neighbors and community leaders, gather in front of their school 30-45 minutes before the school day begins. We rally and listen to a few speakers discuss what they want for the school, and then we all walk into the school together. Walk-ins can be used to celebrate your school, collaborate with school officials, or protest harmful school conditions and policies.
“The National Education Association (NEA) has provided $1,735,000 in funding to one of the organizations behind the training efforts,” Defending Education noted.
The flier states the “demands” of the organizations concern “taxing the rich,” “ICE Out” with “no private army serving authoritarian power,” and “expand democracy, not corporate power,” through defense of “free and fair elections not a rigged disaster.”
“Thousands of organizations across the country are calling for a day of ‘No School, No Work, No Shopping’ to disrupt the violent billionaire takeover of our country and to put working families first,” the May Day organizers state. “Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them.”
According to the Defending Education report, a “Four Weeks of Power” training series for May Day 2026 has been organized by a number of groups, including “Free the Future, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), New York University – Steinhardt Metro Center, and Midwest Academy” – the last of which has “received $1,735,000 from the National Education Association (NEA) since 2015.”
In an investigation last month, the education watchdog reported on the funding of leftwing causes by NEA and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Since August 2015, both NEA and AFT combined to give $255,519,987 in funding to far-left organizations, including MoveOn.org, the LGBT activist Trevor Project, and some state and federal leftwing political action committees (PACs), Defending Education observed.
In September, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) released the Nation’s Report Card, the results of which revealed the harmful effects of public education on U.S. children.
High school students were found to be at historic lows in reading and math, with nearly half of all seniors below basic levels of proficiency.
“Today’s NAEP results confirm a devastating trend: American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12,” U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said regarding the NAEP results.
“Despite spending billions annually on numerous K-12 programs, the achievement gap is widening, and more high school seniors are performing below the basic benchmark in math and reading than ever before,” McMahon added.
As for civics standards, a report Friday at Fox News highlighted the results of the 2022 NAEP civics test – the most recent administered to students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Test data revealed only 22% of eighth graders were proficient in concepts of American government, while 31% scored below the basic level.
Defending Education Director of State Affairs Terry Stoops explained to Fox News Digital what happens when U.S. students are abandoned when it comes to the foundations of the nation.
“The primary problem is that most high school graduates know very little about our American government, our political institutions, and our traditions,” Stoops said. “And so when these individuals get old enough to vote, they’re doing so with not having the type of foundation that they need to make informed decisions in the voting booth.”
He added that “indoctrination” in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology – in classrooms that have been “hijacked by activists” – has only served to further spread ignorance among U.S. students.
“So, this wave of activism we’ve seen in a lot of these classes is particularly troubling because rather than students learning the basics about American government, they’re learning how to be activists and they’re learning how to carry signs with witty slogans for the service of groups and individuals that are trying to instill political change,” Stoops observed. “They’re basically pawns in someone else’s game.”
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