{"id":1908508,"date":"2023-04-01T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremist-scheme-teachers-union-boss-blasts-education-reforms-homeschooling\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:13:06","slug":"extremist-scheme-teachers-union-boss-blasts-education-reforms-homeschooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremist-scheme-teachers-union-boss-blasts-education-reforms-homeschooling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extremist Scheme\u2019: Teachers Union Boss Blasts Education Reforms, Homeschooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fextremist-scheme-teachers-union-boss-blasts-education-reforms-homeschooling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randi Weingarten, the teachers union boss, accused a vocal minority of Americans of promoting an \u201cextremist scheme\u201d to replace government-run schools with private, religious, online, and homeschools. She made these remarks during a speech at the National Press Club, where she singled out the criticisms of public schools by the DeVos, Bradley, Koch, Uihlein, and Walton family foundations. Additionally, Weingarten attacked state legislatures that considered bills creating or expanding existing voucher programs, stating that \u201cVouchers negatively affect achievement \u2014 the declines are worse than pandemic learning loss.\u201d She also denied claims that elementary and secondary schools teach Critical Race Theory and that public schools push a woke agenda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weingarten further targeted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who championed a universal voucher program allowing eligible students to enroll in K-12 to participate in available school choice options. She criticized DeSantis\u2019 program, claiming it sends tax dollars in the increasingly wrong direction. She has made DeSantis the focus of her criticism before, such as when she tweeted in July 2021 that \u201cMillions of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis\u2019 ignorance and he\u2019s choosing to profit from it,\u201d after DeSantis\u2019 campaign team offered T-shirts saying, \u201cDon\u2019t Fauci My Florida.\u201d Two months later, fearing that DeSantis\u2019 policies would encourage parents to pluck their children out of public schools, she tweeted, \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis\u2019 political aspirations. It\u2019s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools.\u201d Weingarten appears to be deeply troubled by DeSantis and Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s stance on the mask mandate, the CRT fabrication, and the related culture war, as it exacerbates the existing shortage of teachers. She believes that the consequences may be dire if the lawmakers continue to follow this path.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten ripped into Americans critical of public education, accusing them of advancing an \u201cextremist scheme\u201d to replace government-run schools with private, religious, online, and homeschools. Speaking to the National Press Club this week, Weingarten \u2014 whose American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teachers\u2019 labor union in the nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1908509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3675,8650,5152,12802,23335,10138,8020,4605,4701],"class_list":["post-1908508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-blasts","tag-boss","tag-education","tag-extremist","tag-homeschooling","tag-reforms","tag-scheme","tag-teachers","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}