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I don’t care what he says – for Betsy DeVos and her PAC to come in and support Paul Vallas tells you everything you need to know about him.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
During his campaign, Biden proudly promised to be a puppet for the teachers union, and that's one promise he has kept. But if Biden continues to do that woman's bidding, he may find himself struggling even in liberal states.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Did parents ever get an apology from her? Of course not, because she doesn't think she did anything wrong. And even as mask mandates are being dropped everywhere, Weingarten is still refusing to budge.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Putting politicians in control of classrooms and lecture halls is a slap in the face to all Americans who value freedom and local control, and we will fight this blatant censorship with every fiber of our being.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Mark my words : Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history, teaching the truth is not radical or wrong.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are constantly trying to help our students, particularly our middle, high school and postsecondary students, separate fact from fiction, as we help them develop their critical-thinking and analytical skills, newsGuard is a great tool in this regard. It is a beacon of clarity to expose the dark depths of the internet and uplift those outlets committed to truth and honesty rather than falsehoods and fabrications.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is what every administration used to do. The problem with the last administration didn't do it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So the bottom line is, we're going to keep kids safe, we're going to keep our members safe, we're going to try to open up schools, and we're going to move through this political battlefield.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The backlash [to teaching about race] that you see in these radicalized circles is going to hurt kids, i felt the need to make it crystal clear to teachers … that I honor their professional responsibilities and that their union will have their back.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The bottom line is it’s time for our kids to be back in school, i am grateful that the Biden administration is listening to parents and to teachers and to administrators and to even Fox to try to figure out how we get people vaccinated, how we get our kids back to school and how we get our country back to being back.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are some kids who did very well on remote, but what's really been lost is the peer-to-peer contact. What's really been lost is the prolonged effects of social isolation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason that you have so many places that are in hybrid is because they don't have the space and they don't have the educators, the real issue right now is how do we help take the places that are on remote and turn it around.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm on board with the goal, but I'm very concerned about this new variant. None of this is done in isolation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Theyve given a tax cut to rich people by basically saying that anybody is going to get a tax credit who wants to spendmoney for any kind of private schools but they have defunded and emasculated public education.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This new thing from Florida and from Texas of' we're going to open five days a week and we're going to open as normal' -- this was new in the mix and clearly a pressure campaign by the administration.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Educators are eager to return to their classrooms and teach their students in person, but they don't want to do it without a plan that adequately protects everyone.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A no-mask, no-testing, no-worries attitude is exactly what will spread the virus.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just can't keep up with it, thousands of emails coming in, and on some days the phone just continually rings all day long.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
These guidelines spell out more of what we need to reopen safely, but they come with a necessary cost the administration would rather ignore.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If it continues, I'll pick up the phone and call both of them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is stomach churning, i've worked with these two now for a good part of the last decade. And since Donald Trump was elected, they have both been just stalwart in not simply the fight against the cruelty of Donald Trump, but the fight for a bold different vision of what America could be.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the past five months, 2,500 children have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is despite a judge's order to stop and to reunify the children, six children have died. We are saying to the Human Rights Council: Hear us and help us!
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This strike is also about questioning a charter school model that seeks to run education as a business rather than a contribution to our kids' futures. Acero executives are more interested in profits than students.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I’m optimistic because people get what’s going on in this county and they understand what the forces are against us, and we are pushing forward together.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They have attacked us and perverted and weaponized the First Amendment, the freedom of speech in a way that no one recognizes.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Let’s make no mistake this was an existential attack on us, but what they didn’t expect was for workers to choose unions and their communities.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Democratic National Committee's a paradigm shift to say that the unpledged delegates on that first ballot are in a different position, that the will of the nominee is going to be chosen, if chosen on the first ballot, by what the primary and caucus process produced.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is no other job I know of where the workers subsidize what should be a cost borne by an employer as a necessary ingredient of the job.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every classroom in America needs a well-supported, well-trained, well-paid educator helping students learn and thrive, teachers fight every day for the resources to do their job, and we fight for and with them — that includes solving shortages by improving wages and working conditions and giving teachers the professional respect, voice and latitude they need to succeed.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's a big deal that the president and the secretaries of education-both current and future-are saying that they get it and are pledging to address the fixation on testing in tangible ways.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's common sense, the fixation on high-stakes testing hasn't moved the needle on student achievement.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are proud that Hillary Clinton has come out in favor of a repeal of the so-called Cadillac tax -- a harmful tax on health benefits that is hurting America's working families, this tax already is being used by employers to shift an increasing share of health care costs to employees.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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