[American Federation of Teachers\President Randi Weingarten]
Weingarten: “I am so honored to represent this country’s educators, healthcare professionals and public employees alongside Evelyn De Jesus and Fed Ingram.
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President Randi Weingarten
AFT Re-elects President Randi Weingarten
DeVos’ School Privatization Funding Attempts Escalate After Espinoza Ruling
[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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AFT PRESIDENT WEINGARTEN DENOUNCES DEVOS’ MISUSE OF COVID-19 FUNDS
[Betsy DeVos\CARES Act Funding]
Weingarten: “DeVos is using what little discretionary money was provided for education in the CARES Act to move full-steam ahead with turning our public schools into online cash cows for her corporate friends.”
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COVID-19 COULD DEVASTATE SCHOOL FUNDING IF WE DON’T ACT NOW SAYS REPORT
[COVID-19\School Budgets]
Albert Shanker Institute President and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten says: “We can’t forfeit our students’ future because of the coronavirus pandemic.”
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AFT PRESIDENT WEINGARTEN PRAISES REAUTHORIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
[Education News]
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten: “The College Affordability Act is a big step toward making higher education a realistic possibility for everyone who aspires to a college education. House Democrats have stepped up with a proposal that meets the needs of the struggling and the striving by creating a genuine pathway to college affordability, revamping loan forgiveness so it is there for people who need it, and increasing the investment in colleges and universities—institutions that have long suffered terrible disinvestment.
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AFT PRESIDENT RANDI WEINGARTEN CELEBRATES WORLD TEACHERS DAY
[Education\World Teachers Day]
AFT President Randi Weingarten: “Educators around the world do so much more than instruct students: They serve as counselors, nurses and caretakers for children facing increasingly complex challenges in an often overwhelming world…Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we honor educators—our change agents—who have chosen one of the most stressful occupations, but who also enable a future to those who do not have access to opportunity otherwise.”
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AFT’S WEINGARTEN, MEDICAL NURSES AND OTHERS DENOUNCE TRUMP’S DEPORTING OF SICK IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
[Immigration News]
AFT’s Randi Weingarten: “First, he separated families. Then he threw children in cages without food, water or showers. And now, in his cruelest move yet, Donald Trump is signing death sentences by deporting children with cancer and other illnesses, and in some cases deporting the parents of their sick and dying kids.”
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