Union Chief Faults School Reform From ‘On High’
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: July 11, 2011
WASHINGTON — Amid one of the most contentious periods in recent memory for teachers’ unions, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on Monday called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”
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Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers says the debate “has been hijacked by a group of self-styled reformers.”
“Let’s refuse to be defined by people who are happy to lecture us about the state of public education — but wouldn’t last 10 minutes in a classroom,” Ms. Weingarten told a crowd of about 2,000 here in kicking off the national conference held every two years b
