{"id":1921330,"date":"2023-04-29T13:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-card-randi-weingarten-cant-erase-her-history-on-school-closures\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:28:26","slug":"report-card-randi-weingarten-cant-erase-her-history-on-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-card-randi-weingarten-cant-erase-her-history-on-school-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Card: Randi Weingarten Can\u2019t Erase Her History On School Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Freport-card-randi-weingarten-cant-erase-her-history-on-school-closures%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=1921330&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>How Randi Weingarten and the AFT Contributed to Catastrophic Learning Losses During the Pandemic<\/h2>\n<p>During the COVID pandemic, we all suffered loss \u2014 loss of freedom, loss of a loved one, loss of a job or home. One can argue, however, that no one lost more than public school students, particularly those in liberal states who were subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-vs-red-2022-test-scores-show-devastating-toll-of-school-shutdowns\/\" title=\"Blue Vs. Red: 2022 Test Scores Show Devastating Toll Of School Shutdowns\">extended school shutdowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Consequences of School Closures, Part 2<\/h3>\n<p>On Wednesday, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation\u2019s second largest teacher\u2019s union, testified in the House Oversight Committee hearing titled \u201cThe Consequences of School Closures, Part 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten took the stand after a March 2022 report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis revealed that the CDC had given unprecedented access to the teacher\u2019s union, a highly political organization and major donor to the Biden campaign, to edit their school reopening guidelines. The AFT\u2019s edits ultimately led to thousands of schools across the country remaining shuttered throughout the 2020-2021 school year, resulting in catastrophic learning losses for students, at least in liberal states whose governors she had influence over.<\/p>\n<h3>Opposing In-Person Learning<\/h3>\n<p>In July of 2020, Weingarten vehemently opposed allowing students to learn in person, she called President Trump\u2019s call to reopen schools in the fall of 2020 \u201creckless, callous, and cruel.\u201d She threatened strikes and proclaimed \u201cnothing is off the table\u201d if school districts decided to reopen \u2014 and she meant it.<\/p>\n<p>The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) proudly announced it would not reopen unless certain conditions were met. Those conditions were that privately operated yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-teachers-unions-moved-the-goalposts-on-returning-to-in-person-instruction\/\" title=\"5 Times Teachers\u2019 Unions Moved The Goalposts On Returning To In-Person Instruction\">publicly funded charter schools<\/a> are shut down, police are defunded, Medicare-for-All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-committee-deadlocks-on-becerra-nomination\/\" title=\"Senate Committee Deadlocks on Becerra Nomination\">government-run health care<\/a> is passed, a statewide wealth tax is implemented, housing for homeless is fully funded and financial Support for Undocumented Students and Families. None of the conditions had anything to do with educating students and everything to do with pushing their radical Left-wing agenda.<\/p>\n<h3>Shifting the Narrative<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten tried to backpedal after fighting tooth and nail to keep schools shut once the data revealed her involvement and the devastating consequences. Like an arsonist posing as a firefighter, Weingarten attempted to shape-shift into a champion for reopening schools. \u201cWe know that kids learn best in person. So opening schools safely, even as the pandemic surged, guided the AFT\u2019s every action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, she wrote an article for The Atlantic advocating for schools to open. But that certainly isn\u2019t enough to cover the tracks of her horrific crimes against children.<\/p>\n<h3>The Numbers Don&#8217;t Lie<\/h3>\n<p>So, does Weingarten actually believe Congress and the public are stupid, like they\u2019ve had their memories wiped by a neuralyzer in \u201cMen in Black\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps so. On the stand, under oath I might add, the union leader denied ever advocating to keep schools closed, saying, \u201cwe spent every day trying to get schools open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only is she on record advocating for school closings, but her argument makes no sense. It was liberal governors who were following Randi\u2019s and the CDC\u2019s guidelines and shutting down schools. Those same liberal governors she campaigned for and spent millions of dollars putting into office. Those weren\u2019t the people she was fighting.<\/p>\n<p>It was conservative governors like Ron DeSantis she was fighting against because they weren\u2019t giving into her political demands. They ignored her and they opened up their schools, and the students are far better off for it.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike Randi Weingarten, the numbers don\u2019t lie. A study conducted by a professor at the University of Nevada showed very clearly that there was a direct correlation between the influence of teachers unions and how slow schools were to reopen.<\/p>\n<h3>The Damage of School Shutdowns<\/h3>\n<p>Stanford University economists conducted a study which found that the pandemic learning loss could total $14.2 trillion in lost future earnings for students over the rest of this century. The study showed that if the learning losses aren\u2019t recovered, K-12 students on average will grow into less educated, lower-skilled, and less productive adults and will earn 3% less over the course of their lives than students educated just before the pandemic. The data also found that learning loss leads to lower high school graduation rates and college enrollment as well as higher teen motherhood, arrests, and incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Scores on the 2022 National Report Card show the largest drop ever recorded in 32 years of conducting this report with an eight-point drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-card-randi-weingarten-cant-erase-her-history-on-school-closures\/\" title=\"Report Card: Randi Weingarten Can\u2019t Erase Her History On School Closures\">eighth-grade math test scores<\/a> from before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3>Sanctioning the Nefarious Union President<\/h3>\n<p>President John F. Kennedy famously once said, \u201cChildren are the world\u2019s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future,\u201d but our prospects are looking bleak with such ignoble individuals like Randi Weingarten responsible for educating our country\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee must sanction the nefarious union president and hold her accountable for her radical organization\u2019s crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Withe is the CEO of the Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit that specializes in exposing and battling abuses by government employee unions.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the COVID pandemic, we all suffered loss \u2014 loss of freedom, loss of a loved one, loss of a job or home. One can argue, however, that no one lost more than public school students, particularly those in liberal states who were subject to extended school shutdowns. On Wednesday, Randi Weingarten, the president of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1980,"featured_media":1921331,"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":[3680,5137,4879,25419,4919,25300,3819,3924,25233],"class_list":["post-1921330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cant","tag-card","tag-closures","tag-erase","tag-history","tag-randi","tag-report","tag-school","tag-weingarten"],"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\/1921330","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\/1980"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}