The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said that her members are indifferent to the prospect of the Department of Education being abolished.
The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said that her members are indifferent to the prospect of the Department of Education being abolished.
In an interview with MSNBC on Sunday, the leader of the second-largest teachers union in the country was asked to react to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education.
“My members don’t really care about whether they have a bureaucracy at the Department of Education or not,” Weingarten said.
“In fact, Al Shanker and the AFT in the 1970s were opposed to its creation. We thought it should stay within HEW (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) because of the whole child.
