In California, teachers unions are pushing a ballot initiative called the California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act. The ballot measure’s stated purpose is to repeal Prop. 13, the final legal hurdle preventing localities from increasing property rates beyond the statewide mandated limit.

The California Teachers Association (CTA) is pushing for passage of the California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act under the guise of “funding education.” In reality, CTA needs to pilfer more property tax dollars to pay their six-figure salaries and push their political agenda. Thanks to the Freedom Foundation’s outreach campaign, more teachers are learning about their rights to opt out and the CTA is seeing their dues intakes drop as a result.

Freedom Foundation has sent hundreds of thousands of emails and mail to teachers, informing them of their constitutional rights under Janus not to fund unions and is helping teachers resign their union memberships. Freedom Foundation is having an impact, and less money in the union coffers means less to spend on their pet projects, like ballot initiatives.

Ironically, it’s precisely because the teachers unions spend dues money to fund initiatives the teachers object to that they are leaving in the first place.

If passed, it’s estimated to siphon $12 billion annually from property owners and small businesses and into the coffers of unions and their friends in local government and on school boards.

The California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act might as well be called, the “making up for lost dues money act”.