AFT Pres Weingarten Supports Charters, Merit Pay, Green Dot Schools and Attacks UTLA during 2010 Visit to SF: “I started a Green Dot school in New York”!
In the following video (http://blip.tv/laborvideo/aft-pres-weingarten-supports-good-charters-merit-pay-and-attacks-utla-during-visit-to-sf-3538770, you can see what American Federation of Teachers, (AFT) President, Randi Weingarten had to say back in 2010 when asked what plan and strategy AFT had to fight privatization.The video is important for it sheds some history as to where we are and how we got here.
In this video you will see Weingarten as President of AFT advocate for merit pay, defend charter schools. She defends the “motives” Arne Duncan and the Department of Education, states that charters could be good for labor relations and even good for instruction. She applauds the corrupt EMO, Green Dot Public Schools(recently the subject of a lawsuit for unconstitutional denial of freedom of speech: