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Randi Weingarten: The President of the US of America spelled out an economic strategy that would help virtually everyone, & he talked to people who'd lost their jobs to outsourcing.
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Randi Weingarten: Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she's anti-woke. She wants to defund public education; she doesn't want public schools to be the center of the community.
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Randi Weingarten: Our polling shows 80% of people want to strengthen our public schools. That is not in line with the very wealthy who want to defund, undermine, & destabilize public education.
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Randi Weingarten: We want every public school to be where parents want to send their kids, where educators want to work, & where kids thrive.
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Randi Weingarten: People "get" what teachers do, but then you have this rightwing extremism that makes it hard for teachers to do what they need to do.
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Randi Weingarten: Charter schools basically do what public schools do. One of my predecessors actually created charter schools to be innovative. Now charters take money away from public schools & from other kids. (con't)
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Randi Weingarten: (con't) If there were studies that showed that charters did well in teaching our kids, don't you think they'd be shouting it from the rooftops?
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Randi Weingarten: After COVID, I hope people understand that there's no substitute for in-person learning. In fact, we're still working hard to get kids caught up from the COVID years.
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Randi Weingarten: I know there's a tight labor market, so we should be paying higher wages to make these jobs more attractive. We shouldn't be making children work, in reference to Iowa.
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Randi Weingarten: Social Security & Medicare laws were about everybody's freedom. Repubs are basically saying that only some people should have freedom, not all people.
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Randi Weingarten: The disabilities law was to make sure we didn't warehouse kids with disabilities. We've fought to get federal money to help round out state & local money to make sure we can educate all kids.
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Rick: Apparently DeSantis is making it so that every female athlete in school sports must report her menstrual cycle.
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Randi: It's creepy & disgusting & an invasion of privacy. Ron DeSantis has often used his Education Dept & Educ Sec'y as the vehicle to do these kinds of things. I think he'll realize this is so gross he won't try to go through Educ Sec'y this time.
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Rick: Make sure you visit AFT's website for more info:
aft.org
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