Surprise! Top teachers' union boss 'endorses' Trump shutdown of U.S. Education Department * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Surprise! Top teachers’ union boss ‘endorses’ Trump shutdown of U.S. Education Department * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

(Photo by Joe Kovacs)
(Photo by Joe Kovacs)

The chief of one of the nation’s biggest teachers’ unions, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, has “endorsed” the idea of shutting down the federal Department of Education.

That’s one of the goals President Donald Trump has expressed, because of the department’s agenda that has included spending hundreds of millions of dollars to inculcate discriminatory gender and race ideologies in children amid its failure to improve the test scores of American children.

Trump has appointed a secretary of education with instructions to see how much of the federal agency’s responsibilities can be given back to states and local communities. In Congress, there’s already a plan to shut down the bureaucracy.

Now, in an interview, Weingarten “accidentally endorses ABOLISHING the Department of Education,” according to a report.

“States and localities run education… they should run it. The federal government should not run it,” she said.

Her quote was, “States and localities run education. It’s basically. That’s where 90% of the funding for education goes. They already run it. They should run it. The federal government should not run it.”

Under Trump’s administration, already dozens of Education Department bureaucrats have been put on leave because they were promoting the ideological diversity and equity campaigns to students.

The moves are part of the shakeup of federal government that is being implemented under Trump, who appointed Elon Musk to his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency to look for ways to cut the size and expense of government.

Twitchy commented, “Yesterday, Twitchy covered Weingarten’s appearance on MSNBC to rail against President Trump’s call to end the Department of Education. It wasn’t so much an interview that Ana Cabrera conducted with Weingarten; it was more like a mutual admiration society, with both participants spending their time agreeing with each other and patting each other on the back for their brilliant insights. But even in that softball environment, Weingarten still couldn’t help but step on a massive rake as she accidentally agreed with Trump that the DOE shouldn’t even exist.”

Other social media responses:

“Finally she has a good idea.”

And, “Ma’am we literally been saying this for decades.”

They also noted Weingarten “makes over $560,000 per year, 9 times average teacher.”

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh’s articles here.


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