Reports that a California school teacher who was aligned with Antifa was paid $190,000 to resign this year are sparking outrage, leading critics to say it reveals the strength of California's teacher unions on public education in the state.
- Gabriel Gipe, an AP Government teacher, was secretly recorded saying he had 180 days to turn his students into "revolutionaries," as revealed in a Project Veritas video released in September 2021
- The school district announced that they planned to fire Gipe within a few days of the video's release and started compiling a dossier outlining evidence against him, according to multiple news reports at that time
- Critics say that the situation highlights how difficult it can be to fire teachers in California due to the power of teacher unions
The Right to Work Foundation was one of two legal nonprofits to usher through the lawsuit that eventually became the landmark U.S. Supreme Court opinion Janus v. AFSCME.
- The opinion found that forced public union dues, and fair share fees, were a violation of a worker's 1st Amendment right of association.
- The conservative organization's video release sparked intense backlash, and the district announced that it planned to fire Gipe within a few days of the video’s release and started compiling a dossier outlining evidence against him, according to multiple news reports at that time.
- “For years teacher union bosses have manipulated their government-granted monopoly control over schools to shield bad teachers from any sort of accountability to parents or taxpayers,” National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said in a statement to The Center square.
- Information obtained by the Sacramento Bee revealed that former Inderkum High School teacher Gabriel Gipe was paid $190,000 to resign from his post.
- Gipe, an AP Government teacher, was secretly recorded saying he had 180 days to turn his students into “revolutionaries,” as revealed in a Project Veritas video released in September 2021.
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