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AFT boss Randi Weingarten shares her ‘concern’ with SCOTUS case on LGBTQ books

The Supreme Court has filed a well-known First Amendment lawsuit after the Maryland school board retracted the original opt-out policy for books relating to gender and sexuality and urged a federal lawsuit. The High Court appears to be with his parents ahead of the final ruling, but President Randy Weingarten, of the American Federation of […]

Randi Weingarten concerned closing Dept of Ed will hurt kids like COVID school closures

Teachers Union boss Randy Weingarten said he is concerned that closing the Department of Education could be as harmful to students as school closures were in the community. On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to begin the process of closing the department. The executive order asks […]

Weingarten tells MSNBC she’s ‘spitting mad’ over attacks on education department

President Randy Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers said she was “angry” about the Department of Education's cuts in staffing delivery, describing it as “an innards of a thousand cuts.” “So what it does is that it evaluates the arena, so that all the kids will have the opportunity, and that's what they're cutting […]

Randi Weingarten decries school choice vouchers as ‘tax credit’ for wealthy

Teachers Union boss Randy Weingarten said in a recent podcast appearance that President Donald Trump's plan to end the Department of Education would mean more funding for school choice vouchers. Weingarten's comments came in a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast. He spoke about the implications of Trump's spending reforms, particularly his plan to end the […]