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.@rweingarten, speaking before @JoeBiden: "We need to elect someone who actually shares our values and has the power to implement them."
We may not hear Biden rebut Trump in his remarks, but Weingarten just did by referring to Japan remarks. "It feels to me that the 2020 election is an opportunity for a major course correction. It is a moment to save our democracy."
Weingarten: "Vice president Joe Biden was our north star in the last administration." We didn’t always get along with the Obama administration. "But we had a go-to guy, who always listened to us, who always brought our message ... to the Oval Office"
Getting into his familiar riff about his father and the move from Scranton, Biden jokes: "... notwithstanding the president saying I abandoned it. I was in the third grade"
Biden, describing his days as a adjunct law professor: "I never had a class that went less than five hours."
Biden asks teachers on hand how many have to work a second job to make ends meet. Than asks about a third. Hands still in the air. "That’s bizarre. That’s ridiculous."
Biden, spinning familiar yarns as he was starting to tick off details of his education plan, quickly cut himself short so he could take Qs. First is from 10-year old girl who begins with Pitbull and asks about unifying the country
His answer veers into an immigration discussion. "The Dreamers have already adopted the American dream. They are Americans."
Biden outlines his plans for free community college paid for by closing some tax loopholes. Says he can get it passed because "enough Republicans with enough Democrats being reelected are going to in fact join with what they know in their gut is the right thing."
Biden says at this AFT town hall flat-out that he doesn't support public funding for charter schools, "period. ... It siphons off money for our public schools, which are already in trouble," as well as from other programs
Biden I should say specified for-profit charter schools here
