EXCLUSIVE — A senior Education Department official who previously worked for the National Education Association was hit with an ethics complaint on Thursday surrounding her ongoing relationship with the nation's largest teachers union.
Protect the People's Trust, a government ethics watchdog, filed the complaint Thursday against Education Department deputy chief of staff Donna Harris-Aikens, alleging that she had improperly coordinated and communicated with the NEA, where she had previously been employed."Almost from the moment she joined the Department, Ms.
The pledge defines such matters as"any meeting or other communication relating to the performance of one’s official duties with a former employer or former client, unless the communication applies to a particular matter of general applicability and participating in the meeting or other event is open to all interested parties."
The most notable interaction between Harris-Aikens and the NEA came in February 2021, when she provided the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers with a briefing and an embargoed copy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policy documents. In 2021, it was reported that the unions had heavily influenced the CDC's guidance on reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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