{"id":1920213,"date":"2023-04-27T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-union-boss-randi-weingarten-denies-group-delayed-school-openings-or-wrongly-meddled-with-cdc-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:04:29","slug":"teacher-union-boss-randi-weingarten-denies-group-delayed-school-openings-or-wrongly-meddled-with-cdc-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-union-boss-randi-weingarten-denies-group-delayed-school-openings-or-wrongly-meddled-with-cdc-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Union Boss Randi Weingarten Denies Group Delayed School Openings Or Wrongly Meddled With CDC Guidelines"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fteacher-union-boss-randi-weingarten-denies-group-delayed-school-openings-or-wrongly-meddled-with-cdc-guidelines%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=1920213&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--><h2>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Denies Union Extended School Lockdowns<\/h2>\n<p>In a hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten denied that her union extended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-would-rather-kids-die-than-stand-up-to-teachers-unions\/\" title=\"Democrats Would Rather Kids Die Than Stand Up To Teachers Unions\">school lockdowns<\/a> or improperly influenced the CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-study-reveals-florida-and-gop-led-states-dominate-covid-19-best-responses-democrat-led-states-rank-among-worst\/\" title=\"New Study Reveals Florida And GOP-Led States Dominate COVID-19 Best Responses; Democrat-Led States Rank Among Worst\">pandemic response policies<\/a>. Weingarten claimed that the hearing was based on a &#8220;faulty&#8221; and &#8220;patently false&#8221; assertion that the AFT wielded its influence with Democrats to keep schools closed even after data indicated that young children were at minimal risk from COVID.<\/p>\n<h3>Union&#8217;s Response to School Reopenings<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten claimed that the AFT &#8220;acted quickly&#8221; to implement &#8220;science-based measures needed to resume in-person schooling safely.&#8221; However, the union threatened a strike days ahead of a planned reopening of District of Columbia Public Schools in February 2021, even as Weingarten insisted that her organization was &#8220;not trying to stand in the way of reopening.&#8221; As late as July 2021, Weingarten remained cagey on school lockdowns and insisted that increasing vaccination rates was necessary to &#8220;keep kids safe&#8221; and &#8220;keep our members safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on Children&#8217;s Education<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-union-boss-randi-weingarten-denies-group-delayed-school-openings-or-wrongly-meddled-with-cdc-guidelines\/\" title=\"Teacher Union Boss Randi Weingarten Denies Group Delayed School Openings Or Wrongly Meddled With CDC Guidelines\">school lockdowns drove unprecedented learning loss<\/a> among children who attended government schools: average reading scores plummeted five points and average mathematics scores dropped seven points among 9-year-olds who took the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. Parents have since responded to disruptions in the nation&#8217;s education system by homeschooling their children at record levels, a phenomenon which Weingarten called an &#8220;extremist scheme&#8221; to &#8220;erode trust in public schools by stoking fear and division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy Over CDC Guidelines<\/h3>\n<p>The AFT provoked controversy after House Republicans revealed that the CDC offered Weingarten and other union officials &#8220;unprecedented access&#8221; to view and shape pandemic response guidelines. Weingarten claimed that the involvement of the AFT in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-chief-says-biden-transition-solicited-school-reopening-advice\/\" title=\"Teachers Union Chief Says Biden Transition Solicited School Reopening Advice\">crafting public health policies<\/a> was &#8220;completely fitting and proper&#8221; since the CDC should be expected to &#8220;consult with education groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1682517572037000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0eoxTLnzKr3rl49f2LXGnU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten contended that her union neither extended the lockdowns which shuttered government schools for several months nor improperly helped the CDC draft their pandemic response policies. Weingarten, who is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about her organization\u2019s conduct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1920214,"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":[8650,5097,10604,4775,4789,25299,13387,25300,3924,4698,4701,25233,10920],"class_list":["post-1920213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-boss","tag-cdc","tag-delayed","tag-denies","tag-guidelines","tag-meddled","tag-openings","tag-randi","tag-school","tag-teacher","tag-union","tag-weingarten","tag-wrongly"],"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\/1920213","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}