{"id":587789,"date":"2021-07-10T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=587789"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:36:05","slug":"head-of-american-federation-of-teachers-wants-to-sue-those-opposing-crt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-american-federation-of-teachers-wants-to-sue-those-opposing-crt\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of American Federation of Teachers wants to sue those opposing CRT"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhead-of-american-federation-of-teachers-wants-to-sue-those-opposing-crt%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=587789&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 id=\"attachment_2452096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2452096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, speaks during a news conference. (Seth Wenig\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:31 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 10, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Head of the American Federation of Teachers announced her plan to sue individuals and groups who oppose critical race theory. In an interview this week, Randi Weingarten compared the fight to teach the radical left wing theory to teaching biology in classes.<\/p>\n<p>She also said she believed the U.S. was founded to ensure that only white men \u201cof a certain ways\u201d had a vote. While she claimed teachers have been bullied into not teaching so called \u201chonest history,\u201d she ignored the parents targeted by school and political officials trying to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt basically says that you can only teach slavery as if it was a deviation from the Founders,\u201d she claimed. \u201cNo, that\u2019s completely the opposite of our professional responsibility and our standards that says we have to teach honest history.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AFT Union Boss Vows to Defend Teachers who break the law by teaching Critical Race Theory in states that have banned CRT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81Zv5Hxgyx\">https:\/\/t.co\/81Zv5Hxgyx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WVGOP (@WVGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WVGOP\/status\/1413256579688796165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weingarten announced the AFT union would head to court in effort to stop state laws from prohibiting CRT. The AFT receives a portion of the over $70 billion in federal tax dollars given to education and intends on dipping into this in its legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, grassroots opposition to CRT has proven effective with more than half of Americans opposing the pernicious theory.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/u-s-and-russian-u-n-ambassadors-strike-a-deal-to-send-aid-to-syria\/\">U.S. And Russian U.N. Ambassadors Strike A Deal To Send Aid To Syria<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, speaks during a news conference. (Seth Wenig\/AP Photo) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 9:31 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 10, 2021 Head of the American Federation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587789","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}