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ONE is not a statement or a campaign. It is an infrastructure project for truth and safety in education. If you understand how urgent that is, you belong in this work.

Who We Are

Education has always been about truth, fairness, and possibility. Yet across America, educators who try to live those values are facing a crisis of trust and accountability. Antisemitism and bias are rising in schools and unions. Teachers who speak up risk retaliation. Systems meant to protect fairness have fractured into silos that no longer see or serve everyone they claim to represent.

One Nation of Educators (ONE) was created by teachers who refused to accept that silence or inequity are the cost of doing our jobs. ONE is a national, educator-led organization building the structure educators and Jewish organizations need to protect truth and fairness where it matters most, inside our schools, unions, and public institutions.

National Structure, Local Reach: ONE operates as a national organization supported by five regional networks — One Northeast, One Southeast, One Midwest, One Southwest, and One Pacific Coast. Each region is led by an educator who coordinates local reporting, partnerships, and advocacy within their area. This structure reflects the geographic and cultural diversity of America’s education systems while maintaining national standards for data integrity, confidentiality, and reform. It ensures that local challenges are addressed directly and that emerging patterns inform coordinated national action.

Each region maintains a direct connection to local Jewish Family Affairs Caucuses (JFACs) forming in districts and states. Through the One Advocate K12 platform, educators, parents, and allies can register their local caucus, access organizing tools, and connect with regional leadership to coordinate advocacy and share resources. Regional networks also serve educators who experience discrimination or lack of fair representation within their school districts or unions, ensuring that advocacy for fairness includes accountability at every institutional level.

The Problem

Labor unions and education systems were designed to protect fairness, yet too often Jewish educators find themselves excluded from those protections. Antisemitic incidents are minimized as political disputes. Jewish identity is omitted from diversity frameworks. Jewish educators remain invisible in data and representation structures that determine who receives recognition, protection, and voice.

While many Jewish organizations work diligently to address antisemitism in K–12 education, their efforts operate through separate channels with limited shared infrastructure. ONE serves as the connective resource — a central hub for coordination, reporting, and verified on-the-ground information that strengthens every partner’s reach and effectiveness.

Persistent Systemic Challenges

Rising Antisemitism

Hostility and exclusion toward Jewish educators and students are escalating, often overlooked or minimized in school climates. These trends mirror broader increases in identity-based harassment affecting many communities. ONE strengthens protections that ensure every student and educator can learn and work in safety.

Invisibility in Data

Jewish identity is rarely recognized in demographic or equity frameworks, leaving patterns of bias untracked and unaddressed. Many other communities face similar gaps when their ethnicity, faith, or cultural identity is misclassified or omitted. ONE ensures that data systems reflect the full diversity of those they are meant to protect.

Flawed Accountability

Districts and unions often protect institutions before people, leaving students and educators without clear pathways to address discrimination, bias, or misconduct. ONE builds systems where transparency and accountability center human impact—not institutional convenience.

Silenced Voices

Most educators cannot safely advocate for themselves or afford legal help, leaving serious concerns about bias, retaliation, and due-process violations unreported or unresolved. ONE provides the tools and structures that allow educators to speak up without risking their careers.

Biased Curriculum

Major education organizations increasingly promote classroom materials that erase Jewish peoplehood and portray Zionism as inherently unjust, normalizing politicized and antisemitic narratives in teacher training and instruction.

Real World Impact

Jewish Teachers Harmed

Jewish educators across the country are reporting hostile work environments, pressure to accept one-sided political narratives, and retaliation for raising concerns about antisemitism. In Massachusetts, the state’s largest teachers’ union has promoted curriculum guidance that lawmakers warn could “further isolate and potentially endanger Jewish and Israeli people in our schools and communities.” In Los Angeles, multiple Jewish teachers filed suit alleging their union fostered an antisemitic climate and penalized those who disagreed with its political positions. These cases illustrate a growing national pattern: Jewish teachers are being marginalized, silenced, or pushed out of their workplaces when institutions fail to protect them.

(Sources: American Jewish Committee, Politicizing K-12 Classrooms: Ideology, Prejudice, & the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA); Aaron Bandler, “Lawsuit: Jewish Teachers Object to UTLA Dues Over Union’s Antisemitism,” Jewish Journal, 2024; California Globe, “Jewish Teachers Forced to Pay Dues to Anti-Semitic Labor Union They Don’t Belong To,” 2024.)

Students Indoctrinated Across the Country

Across the country, instructional materials are increasingly shaped by ideological narratives rather than balanced, academically grounded content. Investigations show that many districts adopt or supplement curriculum with politically framed lessons that oversimplify identity, distort history, or promote activist worldviews. At the same time, most teachers mix and match multiple unvetted materials—creating inconsistent, highly variable learning environments where politicized content can enter classrooms without oversight. Local reporting, including recent curriculum debates in San Francisco, illustrates how these trends are playing out on the ground and how easily instruction can become a vehicle for contested ideology.

(Sources:RAND Corporation, Teachers’ Use of Instructional Materials from 2019–2024; PEN America, Educational Gag Orders; San Francisco Chronicle, reporting on ethnic studies curriculum controversies.)

Unions Risk Legal Exposure

Unions risk legal exposure and loss of trust. “In multiple states, educators have brought claims that their unions failed to provide fair representation, refused to challenge discriminatory practices, or retaliated against dissenting members—exposing unions to legal liability and eroding trust among their own members.”

(Sources: NLRB, “Right to Fair Representation”; The Fairness Center, Duty of Fair Representation Case Summaries, 2024.)

Public Education Loses Credibility

The broader education system loses credibility as a model of democracy. In Philadelphia, a 2024 federal civil-rights investigation found that the school district failed to respond appropriately to antisemitic harassment of students and staff, including incidents involving educators. The finding drew national attention and forced a formal corrective action plan, reinforcing public skepticism about whether schools can uphold equity and civil-rights standards impartially.

(Sources: WHYY, “After Feds Find Poor Response to Antisemitic Incidents, Philadelphia District Agrees to Changes,” Dec 19 2024; Associated Press, Dec 20 2024.)

Our Solution

Educators are the people who experience the system from the inside. They see how bias operates in policy, in curriculum, and in daily school life. They know where accountability breaks down and how it can be restored. Yet no national organization has ever existed with the express purpose of protecting Jewish public-school teachers or giving them a safe, coordinated way to act when they experience discrimination or exclusion.

ONE fills that gap. Our model combines three coordinated branches — Advocacy, Research, and Technology — that work together to transform individual experiences into collective power and institutional reform.

ONE also provides practical support for educators navigating these systems, including guidance on complaint processes, model Right-to-Know and ethics-filing templates, and an Educator Rights Library that translates complex legal frameworks into accessible tools for everyday use.

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ONE’s Integrated Model

One Nation of Educators 501(c)(4)

Political advocacy, organizing, and coalition coordination.

Legislative engagement; educator organizing; union accountability and fair-representation campaigns; policy advocacy; distribution (not authorship) of Educator Rights Library; member-protection network

One Nation of Educators Institute 501(c)(3)

Research, education, and public awareness

Data analysis, policy reports, curriculum review, educator training, authorship of Educator Rights Library, publication of research briefs and accountability frameworks

One K12 Advocate

Technology development and data infrastructure

Secure reporting platform; data verification and analytics; management of public dashboards and transparency tools

Together these three branches form a coordinated pathway for educators to identify injustice, document it safely, and take collective action that leads to real accountability and systemic change.

In practical terms, the ONE Institute produces research and educator resources, One Advocate K12 manages secure data and reporting technology, and ONE (501c4) leads public advocacy, legislative engagement, and union accountability initiatives.

Evidence of Demand

Across the country, educators and Jewish organizations are calling for lawful, coordinated mechanisms to document and address antisemitism. Teachers lack safe reporting systems; Jewish advocacy groups are overwhelmed with requests for help. The demand for a unified infrastructure that transforms individual experiences into actionable data is urgent and widespread.

Alignment with National Reform Trends

From Title IX to state-level transparency dashboards, the national movement is toward measurable oversight. ONE complements this shift by ensuring that antisemitism and Jewish identity are included within broader equity and accountability frameworks.

Why Oversight and Accountability Are Required

Data enables fairness: Transparent reporting drives change.
Integrity protects institutions: Independent accountability builds trust.
Protection enables voice: Safe reporting turns fear into reform.

Interconnected problems require interconnected systems.

Why ONE Is the Missing Infrastructure
ONE provides the external structure, verified data, and legal grounding that enable educators to report, connect, and act safely when institutions fail them. By establishing national data standards, verified reporting, and cross-sector collaboration, ONE turns the moral imperative of fairness into an operational framework that protects every educator, and every student, who depends on a just system.