American Federation of Teachers Tag

Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten: School Choice ‘is About Undermining Democracy’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 20, 2023 76 Comments

"They have not one thing that they offer as a solution other than privatizing or voucherizing schools which is about undermining democracy and undermining civil discourse and undermining pluralism because 90% of our kids go to public schools still"...

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Randi Weingarten Gets Fact-Checked for Misrepresenting Story About a Fired Texas School Teacher

Posted by Stacey Matthews on September 21, 2023 19 Comments

"Hey Randi, you forgot to turn off comments and you're getting fact-checked & exposed for the shameless liar on which you base your entire platform."...

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Randi Weingarten Calling School Choice Segregationist Is Like The Arsonist “Complaining That The House Is On Fire”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2023 25 Comments

"The segregation is taking place through the ideology pushed by Randy Weingarten, which is diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theory. That's what's separating students."...

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AFT’s Randi Weingarten Shut Down on Twitter, CNN After Falsely Claiming She Fought to Reopen Schools

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 30, 2023 29 Comments

“There are numerous statements you made over the summer of ’20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools, and I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that’s been done to these kids.”...

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Teacher Union Head Randi Weingarten Shamelessly Touts the Left’s New CRT Straw Man

Posted by Teri Christoph on November 12, 2021 20 Comments

Deflection: "culture warriors are labeling any discussion of race or discrimination as CRT to try to make it toxic and to try to stop us from teaching students accurate history"...

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How Quickly Teacher Unions Went From Critical Race Theory Is “Not Being Taught” To “Yes, It Is. We Support It.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2021 24 Comments

My appearance on the Todd Herman radio show: "So how is it that you have to hire lawyers to defend the teachers who were doing [CRT teaching], but at the same time you say it's not happening?"...

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Why Parental Pushback Against Critical Race Theory Scares Democrats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2021 22 Comments

My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer: "this is an issue that scares [Democrats] terribly because it cuts across racial groups. It cuts across ethnic groups. And it's very personal to parents. And that's why they're hitting so hard on it."...

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“The fight over Critical Race Theory in education is a fight in many ways for our national survival”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2021 20 Comments

My address on Critical Race Theory in education to state legislators: "I want to talk about how you can save the nation...

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Report: Salaries for Higher Ed Administrators Rising as Tenured Faculty Pay Goes Down

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 27, 2021 5 Comments

"survey found that real wages for full-time faculty decreased 0.4 percent, the first decrease since the Great Recession"...

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Providence Teachers Union Confirms Affinity Group Segregation, Historical Books Destroyed, Holocaust Education Ended (Ramona Bessinger Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2021 25 Comments

Union president: "So there's people of color in one group and white folks in another group...

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Loss of Institutions Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 11, 2021 1 Comment

All the news you may have missed....

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It Will Never Be Enough Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 10, 2021 2 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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American Federation of Teachers Goes All In On Critical Race Theory

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on July 09, 2021 84 Comments

AFT president said elementary schools don't teach CRT. Yet, she announced a $5 million legal fund to defend any teacher punished for teaching CRT in those schools....

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RI School Superintendents Group: “We all know many of our citizens live in a separate news reality with Fox, Newsmax and their ilk”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2021 76 Comments

The South Kingstown, Rhode Island, School Committee triggered a national controversy when it threatened to sue local mother Nicole Solas, who has a child enrolled in kindergarten for the fall, alleging Solas was serving too many public information requests regarding Critical Race and Gender efforts in the schools.

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Conservative Activists Target ‘Woke’ Corporations With New Ad Campaign

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 20, 2021 11 Comments

In the wake of corporations siding with the 'woke' left this year, a conservative group is pushing back with a new ad campaign that targets companies like Coca-Cola and American Airlines. The ads suggest that the political posturing of these companies is a deliberate attempt to hide their failures from stakeholders.

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AFT Union President Pushes Schools to Open in the Fall

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 13, 2021 11 Comments

You all know I don't believe in coincidences. It cannot be a coincidence that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten pushed to reopen all schools in the fall days after emails showed AFT pushing the CDC to keep schools closed this school year.

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Betsy DeVos: ‘Let’s be Really Clear. The 1619 Project is Not History’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 12, 2021 20 Comments

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the 1619 Project, wants it taught in schools. She recently claimed it was a free speech issue. Former education secretary Betsy DeVos was asked about this in an interview this week and spoke frankly.

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CNN Busted for Deceptive Article Suggesting France School Openings Caused COVID Outbreaks, Deaths

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 06, 2021 18 Comments

Since the start of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic here in the U.S., the mainstream media has faced accusations that they have overwhelmingly focused on negative stories about the outbreak instead of balancing them out with positive reports about recoveries, medical and scientific breakthroughs, etc.

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