Spotlight Q&A: Randi WeingartenAt the Newark bargaining table, a place for the president of the American Federation of Teachers
- Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
When the two sides sit down to discuss the Newark teachers contract, it’s a pretty high-profile group at the bargaining table. In a half-dozen discussions so far, joining Superintendent Cami Anderson and Newark Teachers Union President Joseph DelGrosso has been New Jersey’s acting education commissioner Chris Cerf.
But even more notable, the fourth person often in the room has been Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and arguably the nation’s preeminent voice for public school teachers.
NJ Spotlight spoke with Weingarten yesterday about her participation in the talks for the contract that will be central to the success or failure of Anderson and Cerf’s reform efforts for the district.
The former president of the New York City teachers' union also expounded on the reform proposals