One of the most frequent questions we are asked at the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) is “where does Education Minnesota get all of their money and what do they use it for?”
Every year, unions (public and private) are required to disclose their income and assets. Using that data, along with our on-going research about the union, we thought you’d be interested in learning the answer to that question and a few others. The data will also show you what education reformers are up against every time we propose even the most modest changes to existing education and classroom policy.
Total Number of Education Minnesota Members in 2014: 88,571 (that’s an increase of 450 members since 2013)
Total Revenue of Education Minnesota: $31.3 million (of which, 89% came from member dues forcibly extracted from every public school teacher’s paycheck)
Net assets of Education Minnesota: $29.7 million
Total Staff of Education Minnesota: 188
Staff salaries and benefits: $18.8 million
Highest Paid employee of Education Minnesota: Karl Aaro, executive director — $170,628 base salary
Lobbyists (23!) registered to lobby for Education Minnesota (current list as of 2016):
