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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

This Week In Education: UPDATE: AFT President Explains Trigger Document Takedown

This Week In Education: UPDATE: AFT President Explains Trigger Document Takedown

UPDATE: AFT President Explains Trigger Document Takedown

Megaphone#parenttrigger I don't have the official press release yet but AFT president Randi Weingarten emailed me to say that she'd never seen or approved the PowerPoint below until yesterday. "The powerpoint didn't represent AFT or my views, nor does it represent the Conn Fed's views," she wrote. It was apparently one of many presentations posted online after the July TEACH conference in DC (which I attended). In this case, the panel was called "Damaging Legislative Proposals and What You Can Do to Fight Them!" There's now a note on the AFT site explaining "We have received