Teacher union chief Randi Weingarten made a recent media appearance during which she admitted the real reason she doesn’t want the Trump administration to shut down the Department of Education.
It’s all about school choice. She doesn’t want parents and kids to have it.
Why would she oppose school choice? Simple. It threatens teacher unions. If your child’s teacher is awful, or their school is failing, Weingarten doesn’t want parents to have the option of pulling their child out of the school. What if everyone decides to do that and the school has to close?
FOX News reports:
Randi Weingarten says quiet part out loud: Fears Ed Dept closure will boost school choice funds
Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten said during a recent podcast appearance that she is fearful President Donald Trump’s plans to terminate the Department of Education will mean more funding for school choice vouchers, which she decried as a “tax credit” for wealthy families already sending their kids to private school.
Weingarten’s comments came during a podcast interview with Molly Jong-Fast, who spoke with her about the implications of Trump’s spending reforms, particularly his plan to terminate the Department of Education. Weingarten stated that cutting the department’s roughly $100 billion in funding will primarily benefit tax cuts for the wealthy or – “equally pernicious” – be redirected to states as “block grants.”
“We know, for example, what Texas would do,” Weingarten told Jong-Fast. “They’ll use it for vouchers. So they won’t give [federal funding] to the kids who have it now, they’ll just give it for vouchers.”
“And frankly, what we are seeing in all the programs now – in terms of vouchers – they don’t work for kids,” Weingarten continued. “They basically go right now – it becomes a tax credit for people who already are sending their kids to private schools. So it’s income redistribution.”
This video is cued to start at the 16:25 mark, so just press play:
Democrats constantly claim to believe in choice. They sure as heck don’t believe in school choice.
