Teachers' union head raked in over $500K while fighting to keep schools closed during pandemic, tax forms show

Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, was paid more than half a million dollars as the union fought school reopenings.

"Becky Pringle lined her pockets with over half a million dollars and peddled politics at the expense of returning to in-person learning," said Caitland Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, who provided the tax forms to Fox News Digital.

"Children are still feeling the catastrophic effects of prolonged school closures all because teacher union leaders wrote the guidance that kept our schools closed," Sutherland added. "This is politics at its worst."