I spent years on a Virginia school board, and I've experienced firsthand the teachers' union's far-left ideology. This week, the group declared its beliefs out loud. The Virginia Education Association (VEA) issued a press release on November 4, 2026, celebrating voters' "approval of constitutional amendments protecting reproductive freedom, securing marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights" to felons. It even admitted to supporting the legislation that put the amendments on the ballot. What do those Democrat-led amendments have to do with public education? The VEA's answer is that these issues "matter to our members and school communities."