AFT Convention in Seattle Day 1
Up to a point I’d been listening, fairly politely. Then Randi Weingarten read, from her prepared text:
“Our vision is that every neighborhood school should be an excellent school that all families know they can count on, every year, for all of their children.”
and that was too much. Neighborhood schools? When her legacy in the Bronx was to destroy neighborhood schools? When “school choice” guarantees that struggling schools are shut instead of improved. When kids routinely travel past several closer schools on their way to theirs. When Weingarten sat on the board of New
