{"id":1954108,"date":"2023-06-22T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-appoints-randi-weingarten-to-school-safety-advisory-board\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:44:41","slug":"biden-admin-appoints-randi-weingarten-to-school-safety-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-appoints-randi-weingarten-to-school-safety-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden appoints Weingarten to School Safety Board."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-appoints-randi-weingarten-to-school-safety-advisory-board%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=1954108&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--><div>\n<h2>The Biden Administration Announces New Members of School Safety Board<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration announced new members of its school safety board this week, including Randi Weingarten, the teachers&#8217; union head who backed school closures throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council Receives New Appointments<\/h3>\n<p>The Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/hsapc\">makes recommendations<\/a> on safety concerns in schools, received 20 new appointments this week including Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has faced Republican pushback for his response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-condemn-biden-admin-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers condemn Biden admin. over border crisis\">ongoing border crisis<\/a>, announced the selections this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leaders of our academic institutions and campus life have a great deal to offer in helping us counter the evolving and emerging threats to the homeland,&#8221; Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2023\/06\/21\/secretary-mayorkas-appoints-new-members-academic-council-advise-dhs\">said<\/a> in a statement. The group advises on campus safety, its website says.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-biden-administration-is-funding-the-effort-to-delegitimize-israel\/\" title=\"How the Biden Administration Is Funding the Effort To Delegitimize Israel\">long faced criticism<\/a> for her role in government lockdowns. She was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/beastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures\/\">called<\/a> out by political commentator and father Scott Jennings for denying her responsibility in prolonging school closures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaking on behalf of millions of American parents &#8230; I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have wanted to reopen schools,&#8221; Jennings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-scott-jennings-torches-randi-weingarten-for-role-in-school-closures-i-hear-no-remorse\/\">said<\/a> during an April CNN panel discussion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Weingarten Testifies in Front of Congress<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-no-randi-weingarten-wasnt-fighting-to-open-schools\/\">testified<\/a> in front of Congress in April surrounding her union&#8217;s role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-appoints-randi-weingarten-to-school-safety-advisory-board\/\" title=\"Biden appoints Weingarten to School Safety Board.\">shaping public policy<\/a> on school lockdowns. Weingarten told Congress that &#8220;we spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-no-randi-weingarten-wasnt-fighting-to-open-schools\/\">review<\/a> of Weingarten&#8217;s statements by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> found that she was actually not the school reopening champion she says she was. She called then-president Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to reopen schools &#8220;reckless,&#8221; &#8220;callous,&#8221; and &#8220;cruel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emails and phone records also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/25\/teacher-unions-had-bigger-hand-in-cdc-school-reopening-plan\/\">reveal<\/a> Weingarten and her union were in contact with the Centers for Disease Control in the days before the agency issues guidance that critics said made it too difficult for schools to reopen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers. The Biden administration appointed Randi Weingarten, the teachers&#8217; union leader who supported school closures during the pandemic, to its school safety board. Additionally, the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council, responsible for advising on school safety, welcomed 20 new members, including Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1954109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1954108","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}