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After assuring parents that she worked tirelessly to reopen schools even as many of her own local union affiliates fought against school reopening, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten has graduated from mere gaslighting to telling big little lies.
Responding to an important new book calling for public sector union reform in the United States, Weingarten claims that these reforms would hurt kids because, “Research shows that teachers unions are positively associated with student achievement.”
Her evidence? She cites a grand total of two academic studies on the topic. This is disingenuous at best and a lie of omission at worst.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Nov. 1, 2017. (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)
Let us offer up an analogy. Weingarten’s argument is akin to saying that Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin are lifesavers in the…
