Randi Weingarten to face GOP grilling
on COVID-19 school lockdowns
Posted By: mc squared, 4/26/2023 11:12:40 AM
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the nation’s most powerful teachers unions, will testify Wednesday afternoon before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to address her union’s role in influencing public policy on school lockdowns. In her prepared testimony, Weingarten will call on lawmakers to "think bigger than the faulty premise of this inquiry," which is the claim that AFT inappropriately coordinated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 to make last-minute changes to school reopening guidance. "With a strategy focused on opening schools, it was completely fitting and proper for the CDC, which specializes in science, not
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Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear
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in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s
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What's more fitting here, melted by a bucket of water or a crushed under a falling house? Nobody wants her ruby slippers anyway.