WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation’s largest teachers union is proudly distributing grants to local teachers unions to fight education reforms and help illegal immigrants avoid deportation through President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The National Education Association must “be a social justice union,” advocacy and outreach director Kim Anderson declared on the union’s political website, EducationVotes.

That’s the reason the NEA sent cash to the United Teachers Los Angeles to encourage teachers to recruit undocumented immigrants for Obama’s DACA program, which allows younger immigrants to obtain work permits or pursue higher education.

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The union is worried a Republican president could halt the program in the future.

“We’re doing everything we can to let students know and let families know that they’re able to do this right now,” United Teachers Los Angeles treasurer Arlene Inouye told the union site.

The NEA is also sending money to the far-left Wisconsin-based student group Youth Empowered in the Struggle, which teachers have used in the past to pressure school officials during teacher union contract negotiations.

The money for YES goes toward summer social justice training camps for kids that mold them into liberal community activists with the goal of protesting some kind of an injustice during the school year. According to EducationVotes, YES championed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

This year, the group is targeting a union boogieman: standardized testing.

The NEA’s grants are doled out through its Office of Minority Community Organizing and Partnerships, which focuses on bankrolling efforts that support the union’s far-left political agenda.

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“Thanks to a grant from MCOP, YES can fund trips to Madison to rally against (Republican Gov.) Scott Walker and his allies in the statehouse,” the union site reports.

“Youth organizing in the schools has grown significantly since we’ve been able to have this funding,” YES spokeswoman Kika Meraz said.

The EducationVotes site doesn’t disclose how much the union spent on its social justice political student recruiting efforts, but it’s undoubtedly a lot more than it’s devoted to improving teacher evaluations, student instruction, or other measures that actually help all students learn.

Instead, the NEA seems to remain focused on its traditional excuses for poor performing schools staffed by its members.

The NEA’s social justice cash is aimed “to fight for equitable funding, lower class sizes and greater teacher diversity, and against any and all efforts to privatize public education,” EducationVotes reports.

In other words, the country’s poor academic performance is due to insufficient funding, the number of students in the classroom, too many white teachers and the determination of parents to find a better educational option for their children.

Instead of addressing real problems in education, such as the documented lack of quality teacher training, the NEA continues to bury its head in the sand and point fingers at those working to fix the system.