How Unions Helped The Left Capture Curricula

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Paul Zimmerman, policy counsel at the Defense of Freedom Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to explore how teachers unions leverage their influence with school districts to insert leftist ideology into classrooms and curricula.

Read the new report "DFI Exposes How Unions Use Collective Bargaining Agreements to Force Woke Ideology on Teachers and Students" here: https://dfipolicy.org/new-report-dfi-exposes-how-unions-use-collective-bargaining-agreements-to-force-woke-ideology-on-teachers-and-students/

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.4	I'm Emily Dreschensky, culture editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.9	As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.
0:26.9	Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.
0:29.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.
0:32.8	Today we're joined by Paul Zimmerman.
0:34.4	He's the policy council over at the Defense of Freedom Institute, which is out with a
0:38.0	super fascinating new report on an aspect of the education debate.
0:42.4	I don't think we sort of talk about enough.
0:46.2	It's called the corrupt bargain.
0:48.6	You can read more about it over at dfipolicy.org.
0:52.0	The whole report is up on the website.
0:53.7	Paul, thanks so much for stopping by Federalist Radio Hour.
0:57.1	Thank you so much for having me, Emily.
0:59.8	Let's just start by having you tell us what you guys are up to over the Defense of Freedom
1:03.2	Institute.
1:04.2	What do you guys work on on a daily basis?
1:06.5	What kind of issues are you focused on?
1:09.3	Well, the Defense of Freedom Institute or dfi, for short, is a law and policy advocacy organization.
1:17.2	Our goal is to promote freedom and opportunity and education and the workforce throughout
1:22.2	the United States.
1:24.2	The things that we're working on quite a bit is a partly oversight of the Biden administration's
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