[Student Loan]
Weingarten: “Rather than alleviating the debt burden of students committed to public service, ACS ran roughshod over them, making careless errors and pushing them into forbearance and onerous repayment plans.”
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Randi Weingarten
Report: over five million Student Loan servicing errors hinder loan forgiveness
AFT Leaders Announce Innovation Fund COVID-19 Response Grants
[American Federation of Teachers]
Weingarten: “Our hope is that through the AFT Innovation Fund, we can step up and support the knowledge, care and ingenuity of educators, their unions and their students in this time of unprecedented national turmoil.”
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AFT: Justice Ginsburg was “brilliant hardworking jurist” and “trailblazing feminist”
[Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
AFT: “Justice Ginsburg is an icon. She leaves behind a legacy as a brilliant, hardworking jurist and a trailblazing feminist…she broke barriers most never even dreamed to approach. Her unfailing sense of justice reminded us of its awesome power.”
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Poll Shows Parents, Teachers Want “Safety First” on Reopening Schools
[Reopening Schools]
Weingarten: “Parents and teachers are on the same page when it comes to school reopening…and reject President Trump and Betsy DeVos’ agenda to strip schools of funding if they don’t fully reopen.”
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AFT President 2020 Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Public Schools
[American Federation of Teachers\Randi Weingarten]
Weingarten: “The PDK poll confirms once again what we know to be true: Public schools are supported by an enduring majority of Americans, and Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’ vicious agenda to ‘end’ them is the antithesis of what Americans want.”
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National Radio town hall on Reopening Schools to held Aug. 15
[“Getting It Right: Reopening Our Nation’s Schools”]
“Getting It Right: Reopening Our Nation’s Schools” will be aired live on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, D.C., and audio streamed on www.wpfwfm.org; aired live on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and audio streamed on www.wbai.org.
Photo: Event Flyer
AFT’s Weingarten Rejects Trump’s Schools Reopening Guidelines
[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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AFT Convention Delegates Endorse Joe Biden for President
[AFT’s National Convention\Joe Biden]
AFT’s Randi Weingarten: “Joe Biden is the deeply decent, experienced, caring and competent leader America needs to guide our nation through the three crises we face today—a global health pandemic, an economic crisis and a long-overdue reckoning with racism.”
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