Outrage at Randi Grows -- Schumer and a Teachers’ Union Leader Secure Billions for Private Schools, NYT -- Oh, the Optics
"This one is too much - good old Randi and Chuck" - Email from retired teacher
The pandemic relief bill includes $2.75 billion for private schools. How it got there is an unlikely political tale, involving Orthodox Jewish lobbying, the Senate majority leader and a teachers’ union president... NYT
Last year, Ms. Weingarten led calls to reject orders from Ms. DeVos to force public school districts to increase the amount of federal relief funding they share with private schools, beyond what the law required to help them recover.
Randi talking out of five sides of her mouth? I'm shocked there's gambling.
“We never anticipated Senate Democrats would proactively choose to push us down the slippery slope of funding private schools directly,” said Sasha Pudelski, the advocacy director at AASA, the School Superintendents Association, one of the groups that wrote letters to Congress protesting the carve-out. “The floodgates are open and now with bipartisan support, why would private schools not ask for more federal money?”
Among the Democrats who were displeased with Mr. Schumer’s reversal was Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California,
Oy vay, Randi. You mean those Orthodox communities with some of the highest COVID numbers in the city? Let's reward them.
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