Major Teachers Union Funds Group Planning to Stage Anti-ICE Protests at Public Schools

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The organizers behind the recent No Kings demonstrations are gearing up for nationwide follow-up protests on May 1.

Some of these protests will take place outside of public schools, according to literature distributed by activists. Midwest Academy, to which disclosures indicate the National Education Association has given roughly $1.4 million since 2020, will be training activists to interface with “parents, educators, and students” ahead of the protests, according to documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. Midwest Academy is an advocacy group based in Chicago that provides training resources for liberal organizers with the aim of a “building a more equitable and just society.”

Promotional materials distributed by activists demand “no work, no school, [and] no shopping” on May 1. It is unclear if the NEA endorses truancy in the service of these protests. The NEA did not respond to a request for comment.

In addition to skipping school, school “walk-ins” are another tactic endorsed by organizers — including the NEA itself.

These walk-ins will begin with 30 to 45-minute rallies held outside of schools, where, at the conclusion, participants in the demonstration walk onto school grounds together. Documents produced by activists don’t make it clear if protests are supposed to continue once demonstrators enter campuses.

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