Powerful teachers union joins forces with group targeting CRT opponents, Republican education initiatives

One of the nation's most influential teachers unions joined forces with a left-wing dark money group initially formed to push back against opponents of critical race theory in K-12 schools.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union, and Campaign for Our Shared Future, a so-called "nonpartisan" group founded to combat a wave of "culture wars attacks" on communities, children, and the K-12 system, partnered on an initiative to provide aid to educators they say are under attack from Republicans across the country.

"Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights ('lows' may be more apt), but they are not new," AFT President Randi Weingarten recently wrote on the union's website. "The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it."