[9YearLurker]

Thanks for the research—that’s a lot of teachers (and government employees)!

[meadsjn]

From the numbers below, the AFT and NEA have about 4.7 Million members, active and retired. Some lucky states might not require membership. Some members might be conservative, but be forced to join as a condition of employment (as in Idaho).

It's hard to pinpoint, but I'd guess the overwhelming majority of teachers in the USA are hard-core communists.

In July of 2010, the AFT was the second-largest education labor union in the United States. AFT represented an estimated 1.5 million members which included 250,000 retirees.
Wikipedia - American Federation of Teachers

In 2007, at the 150th anniversary of its founding, NEA membership had grown to 3.2 million.[citation needed] However, five years later, USA Today reported that NEA had lost more than 100,000 members since 2010.[30]
Wikipedia - National_Education_Association"