Randi Weingarten Shows Solidarity with Newark Teachers UnionAFT president promotes strategy for streamlining tenure and improving teacher evaluation
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and former head of New York City’s teachers union, last Thursday unveiled her plan for revamping teacher tenure.
On Monday, where better to make one of her first stops than in New Jersey, a state that has become a national showpiece for how school reform -- including tenure reform -- could play out?
Weingarten traveled to the home of the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) yesterday to promote her plan.
And she took aim specifically at Gov. Chris Christie and his own plans for changing tenure -- albeit in very different ways -- not to mention his open hostility toward teachers unions.
"While he talks about unions in a pretty pejorative way, he hasn’t seen what the Newark Teachers