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Randi Weingarten, with megaphone, marches in a New York City rally, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Professional Staff Congress/via JTA)
JTA Public school unions in the US are increasingly becoming a hotbed of Israel discourse, with the largest teachers’ union becoming the latest organized body to deliberate measures that censure Israel and support the Palestinian cause.
At the National Education Association’s annual meeting held earlier this month (with US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, a longtime educator, in attendance), members planned to debate two items on Israel and the Palestinians among the more than 60 items on its virtual agenda. Both sought to make the union publicize some measure of support for the Palestinians and oppose the actions of the Israeli government in the wake of May’s outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza.
By Melanie Arter | July 16, 2021 | 10:23am EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris (C-R) meets with Democratic members of the Texas State Legislature at the American Federation of Teachers building near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, July 13, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Texas state Rep. Richard Raymond (D) on Thursday tried to justify his and his Democratic colleagues’ decision to leave the state to try to thwart Republican efforts to pass a voting bill in Texas by comparing it to a bill that would allow child abuse.
“If you can imagine that you re an elected official in the legislature. You knew, for example, there was legislation that would allow abuse of children in your view of the way that we re laying it out, it would allow children to be abused, and you know the votes were there to pass,” Raymond told Fox News’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto.”
Louisiana schools set to reopen in the coming weeks as pandemic surges in the state
South Cameron High School in Grand Chenier, Louisiana. [Credit: Lillie Long/FEMA]
COVID-19 is surging throughout Louisiana as a result of premature school and business reopenings, the abandonment of mitigation strategies, and one of the lowest vaccination rates in the United States.
There were 1,503 new cases reported Thursday by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), an increase not seen since mid-February. The seven-day moving average reached 1,107 on July 15, a nearly 300 percent increase from a month ago. As of Friday, 504 people were hospitalized with the disease statewide, the highest number since mid-March.
And it’s increasingly clear that they couldn’t care less what parents think about CRT. In her formal response to their concerns, Weingarten accused them of being “culture warriors” who “want to deprive students of a robust understanding of our common history.”
To families new to education policy debates, the hostility of the AFT toward parental concerns may come as a surprise, but Weingarten and any union under her control have always been interested in power and political gain first and foremost. Parental concerns are far, far down the list.
This is who she s always been. The AFT’s political actions and statements have proven that the union is only interested in their own welfare, not that of students, and that Weingarten herself only appears to be concerned with her own political prospects.