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Union leaders like American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who has suddenly become America’s biggest school reopening cheerleader, have refused to “follow the science” for over a year now as it has become more and more clear that COVID-19 presents little to no risk to school-aged children and their communities.
Instead of fully re-opening, many schools have begun so-called “hybrid” schedules.
One has to wonder: what is really behind the continued resistance to full re-openings? United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), the social justice organization that also just happens to sometimes hold itself out as a labor union for teachers, might have an answer.
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Peeved parents called into C-SPAN on Wednesday to grill American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on her union s apparent slow-walking of getting kids back in the classroom as more Americans get their coronavirus vaccines, as well as the AFT s influence on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for schools.
Communication between the AFT and the CDC revealed the latter was pressured to change some language on the reopening of schools. In one provision, the CDC said that schools could open their doors regardless of community transmission rate, but changed the language at the urging of the union. The AFT was heavily criticized for pressuring the CDC, but Weingarten pushed back and said her union simply tried to get the CDC s attention on the potential COVID-19 variants that were around the corner, in India and elsewhere, and asked them to rethink the g
Teachers’ Union Head: CDC ‘Asked Us for Language’ on School Reopening Guidelines
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten on Tuesday said the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked her organization to recommend “language” to be used in school opening guidelines released in February.
In an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Weingarten was specifically asked about a report by the New York Post, which alleges that the CDC altered its guidance on when and how schools should reopen in favor of the AFT, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union and one of the top donors to the Democratic Party.