Teachers Unions Travis Pardo Research Associate Travis R. Pardo offers expertise in religious liberty, teacher unions, and the arts. He has been featured on local and national radio shows speaking about the National Education Association, and has been published nationally by Scripps Howard News Service and quoted in Education Week , the nation s largest education weekly. Travis graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, religion, and philosophy. His special area of study involved the relationship between religion, morality, and public policy. He has been accepted to Yale Divinity School to pursue studies in philosophy.
Teachers unions are the single most powerful force in American education.
But they do more than just represent teachers. They promote abortion, homosexuality and other liberal causes, and also funnel teachers' dues to help elect left-wing politicians. Parents need to know how the NEA and the AFT impact their child's education firsthand, and teachers need to know that they don't have to be a union member. They have a choice. Funding the National Endowment for the Arts violates the constitutional principle of limited government and breeds mediocrity in the arts, while promoting artistic genres that fail to uphold what is good, true and beautiful.