AFT's Weingarten on Philadelphia School Budget Crisis |
"Which Philadelphia is this—the thriving metropolis Mayor Michael Nutter just showed the Democratic National Committee or the one where the schools are starved and the teachers are blamed? It's interesting that the minute the DNC site selection committee leaves the city, the attacks on educators start up again, with officials saying teachers need to give up more, even though in the past few years they have taken no wage increases and have saved the district about $100 million. Make no mistake: Gov. Tom Corbett has systematically starved Philadelphia's schools, while Philadelphia's teachers have been the glue holding these schools together. We must do better for our kids. We need leaders on both sides of the aisle and in state capitals across the country—especially in Harrisburg—that will fully and fairly fund neighborhood public schools." Follow AFT President Randi Weingarten: http://twitter.com/rweingarten  |
"The powerful figures who rolled over and played dead, when they surely
could have defended themselves, democracy, vulnerable Americans, and civil
society with just a modicum of courage"
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*Worst of News Outlets*: Of all the legacy outlets to turn tail, none
exceeded *CBS *in its utter forfeiture of moral authority and journalistic
princip...
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