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American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in 2016.(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Randi Weingarten’s Latest Lie
One need not look far to find instances of American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten spreading disinformation. During the last two years of the pandemic, as leader of the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union, she did everything in her power to ensure that students remained out of classrooms, even when countless studies and the example of virtually every other Western democracy suggested it was safe to return. She continued to resist reopening even as the evidence mounted that remote learning was detrimental to students.
Now, Weingarten has set her sights on Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits “classroom instruction” on sexual orientation and gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade.