The leaders of America’s two largest teachers unions, which fought to keep public schools closed during COVID and have pushed to bring radical leftist ideology to the classroom, spoke at the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday.
American Federation For Teachers president Randi Weingarten claimed that former President Donald Trump and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance “can’t claim they’re pro-child while gutting funding for public schools,” and that “being pro-family means we support access to good union jobs, affordable housing, health care, and higher education.”
Weingarten, who claimed last month that Trump was an “existential threat to democracy,” heads the nation’s second-largest teachers union. The labor leader has come under fire in recent months for asserting that she fought to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandemic, when in fact she…
