Wash. Teachers' Union Exchanges Legal Challenges With Think Tank
A war of words, as well as legal briefs, is escalating between the Washington Education Association and groups mounting challenges against the union's financing of political activities.
WEA members asked the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last week to investigate the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, claiming the Olympia-based conservative think tank is undeserving of its tax-exempt status because, the union members assert, it engages in political work. The action followed the foundation's filing of more complaints with the state attorney general about the funding of political campaigns by the WEA and the National Education Association.
The foundation charges that the WEA improperly requested, and was given, more than $400,000 from the NEA to fight state initiatives for new charter school and...
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