By Randi Weingarten 
[American Federation of Teachers\Randi Weingarten]
Weingarten: “If people are looking for someone to blame for school buildings staying closed, they should look no further than DeVos, Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
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[COVID-19 Relief]
Weingarten: “The funds proposed for K-12 public schools, colleges and universities are woefully inadequate given the expenses schools will face to reopen safely.”
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[COVID-19 Pandemic]
Weingarten: “The CDC may have changed its tone to accommodate President Trump’s whims, but the details of its guidance remain the same: Schools cannot reopen safely and equitably until we have effectively contained the virus spread.”
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[Reopening Schools]
Weingarten: ” It seems the lives of kids and teachers are less important to the president than those of GOP delegates.”
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[COVID-19\School Funding]
Weingarten: “Our nation is at a critical crossroad, and the decisions Congress and the president make in the next two weeks will be felt for generations to come.”
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[Immigration Students]
Weingarten: “The Trump administration has chosen to use international students as cover to further its xenophobic and racist aims. At every turn, Donald Trump has attacked the status of immigrants in this country.”
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[HEROES Act]
Weingarten: “It’s a dereliction of duty for Mitch McConnell to go on vacation in July without passing the federal investment our schools desperately need to safely reopen this fall…McConnell and Republican senators to take up the HEROES Act.”
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[Betsy DeVos\School Privitization\Espinoza Ruling]
Weingarten: “It is telling that, after spending more than three years doing nothing to help the public schools that 90 percent of children attend, Betsy DeVos races to divert resources into private hands 48 hours after the Supreme Court’s decision in Espinoza.”
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[Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue]
Weingarten: “Never in more than two centuries of American history has the free exercise clause of the First Amendment been wielded as a weapon to defund and dismantle public education.”
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[American Federation of Teachers\Justice in Policing Act of 2020]
Weingarten: “This legislation makes clear that police brutality, misconduct, harassment and killing have no place in this country.”
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