Randi Weingarten: "it makes people more alone and more isolated .. WHICH IS PART OF THE REASON OPENING SCHOOLS WERE SO IMPORTANT! Bring back the relationships .. bring people together! So that people can see that, you know, they're not just looking at their devices."
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BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "I can hear a little alcohol in the air. Feels like 8th period on the last day of school in here. Working on that in your union contract so you don't got to sneak it out of your desk."
This just happened at the teachers union convention.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is a former Chicago Teachers Union organizer and Chicago Public Schools teacher.
55 Chicago public schools have zero students proficient in math or reading.
BREAKING: Liberty Justice Center just filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and the state of California to challenge their bill prohibiting schools from adopting parental notification policies.
Assembly Bill 1955 "aims to prohibit schools from adopting parental notification policies that require school administrators to inform parents if their children ask to be referred to by a name or pronouns that differ from their gender at birth"
"The Liberty Justice Center’s lawsuit asks the Court to bar California from implementing AB 1955 because the legislation violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments as well as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)."
"The Portland Association of Teachers promoted & collaborated in the creation of an anti-Israel lesson plan for pre-kindergarten to high school that teaches about Israel as an illegitimate settler-colonial state, anti-Zionism, & participation in protests." m.jpost.com/diaspora/antis…
"Suggested books include the Palestinian-themed alphabet book P is for Palestine, which includes a passage about intifada as
'rising up for what is right.'" m.jpost.com/diaspora/antis…
BREAKING: Randi Weingarten’s teachers union contributed to "Defend Rural Texas PAC."
This PAC has contributed to two "Republicans" who voted against school choice: @BurnsForTexas & @Bailesfortx.
The union only publicly endorsed Democrats.
NEW campaign finance reports 👇🧵
Here is the contribution from "Texas AFT" to the "Defend Rural Texas PAC."
Texas AFT is the Texas affiliate of Randi Weingarten’s teachers union.
Here are the new campaign finance reports showing contributions from "Defend Rural Texas PAC" to DeWayne Burns (@BurnsForTexas) and Ernest Bailes (@Bailesfortx).
This is the PAC that received funding from the Texas affiliate of Randi Weingarten’s teachers union.