Teacher union chief Randi Weingarten made a recent media appearance during which she admitted the real reason she doesn’t want the Trump administration to shut down the Department of Education.
It’s all about school choice. She doesn’t want parents and kids to have it.
Why would she oppose school choice? Simple. It threatens teacher unions. If your child’s teacher is awful, or their school is failing, Weingarten doesn’t want parents to have the option of pulling their child out of the school. What if everyone decides to do that and the school has to close?
Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten said during a recent podcast appearance that she is fearful President Donald Trump’s plans to terminate the Department of Education will mean more funding for school choice vouchers, which she decried as a “tax credit” for wealthy families already sending their kids to private school.
Weingarten’s comments came during a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast, who spoke with her about the implications of Trump’s spending reforms, particularly his plan to terminate the Department of Education. Weingarten stated that cutting the department’s roughly $100 billion in funding will primarily benefit tax cuts for the wealthy or – “equally pernicious” – be redirected to states as “block grants.”
“We know, for example, what Texas would do,” Weingarten told Jong-Fast. “They’ll use it for vouchers. So they won’t give [federal funding] to the kids who have it now, they’ll just give it for vouchers.”
So much for CHOICE! She and her Rabbi wife fully support the choice of having an abortion, tho!