[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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HEROES Act
AFT’s Weingarten Disappointed in Republican COVID-19 Relief Proposal for Schools
COVID-19: Rep Waters HEROES Act Passage Desperately Needed
[COVID-19\”Heroes Act”]
Waters: “When asked by a reporter this week if a coronavirus bill would pass by the end of the month, Mitch McConnell reportedly laughed and said ‘no.’…There is nothing funny about any of this.”
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Education Job Losses to Top 1.4 Million Without Urgent Federal Stimulus
[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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Jamaal Bowman on “Incompetent” Trump’s Threat to Cut School Aid
[School Reopenings\COVID-19]
Bowman: “As Donald Trump aims his fire at school districts that won’t haphazardly reopen, we don’t have to keep accepting his failures as the best we can do. Just because he is too incompetent to lead, doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t.”
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AFT’s Weingarten to McConnell: Take Up HEROES Act Now
[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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AFT Passes Resolution To Fight Systemic Racism in Schools
[AFT\Black Lives Matter]
AFT President Randi Weingarten: “We must also do all we can to create safe and welcoming environments. That requires us to rethink school security starting with separating police forces from schools.”
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FORGET HATER TRUMP, FINALLY COVID-19 FUNDING MAYBE MADE AVAILABLE FOR IMMIGRANTS
[America’s Voice]
Frank Sharry: “immigrants are essential members of the American family who have been indispensable in the fight against the pandemic.”
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“HEROES” ACT RAISES $250 BILLION BY REPEALING HUGE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
[HEROES Act\“Millionaires Giveaway”]
F. Clemente: “Not only would the House-passed HEROES Act revoke an egregious example of pandemic profiteering in the form of the ‘Millionaires Giveaway,’ but it would also be the first corrective to the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law, a $2 trillion boondoggle.”
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AFT’S WEINGARTEN WELCOMES INTRODUCTION OF HEROES ACT COVID-19 RELIEF LEGISLATION
[American Federation of Teachers\HEROES Act]
Weingarten: “Today’s proposal from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats takes a vital step toward helping our country begin to recover from the devastation of COVID-19.”
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