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Teacher Union Chief Randi Wentbarten says she’s worried about turning off Department of Education It could be harmful to students as well as the closure of the school during Coida.
Thursday, President Donald Trump She signed an executive command that sent the Minister of Education Linda McMahon to start the department’s closure process.
Executive command McMahon asked “Take all the necessary steps to make it easier to close the Department of Education and Return to State Education, continuing to ensure an effective and continuous provision of services, programs and benefits that Americans rely on.”
“You know, you can express the department by release your people, excluding a web service or an internet service,” Wentarten, president of the US Federation of Teachers (AFT), said on Friday on Friday at Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power”.
The Education Department is significantly dismantled in Novi Trump’s executive order
US President Donald Trump signs the executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department of Education, together with school children that sign their own versions, during the White House Ceremony on March 20, 2025. In Washington, DC. ((Photo Chip Somodeville/Getty Images))
“And so, what I don’t want is, I don’t want to close that way so many ways that the kids are really hurt. And then someone says, ‘Oops, we didn’t want to do it. “Children go through kindergarten once,” Wentbarten added. “We have already seen the long -standing problems that have happened when the schools have been closed for too long. We have to make sure we get it well for children.”
Wentbarten, AFT and the unions of other teachers have been criticized for years for their reactions to the Pandemia of the Coronavirus and the reluctance to reopen schools.
In July 2020. Wentbarten strayed the guidelines of Trump’s administration to re -open schools until the fall of 2020. As “reckless”, “cheeky” and “cruel”. She later invited the Congress for Multiple Funding Schools and threatened the strike if she re-opened without the use of expansive safety precautions such as mandates masks, 6-stopal 6 feet (at that time the recommended distance of 3 CDC rates) and updated ventilation systems.
E -Mailing of February 2021 It showed that AFT successfully lobbied the centers for the control and prevention of the disease to be more cautious in their school -opening guidelines.
It seems that the president of the US Federation Federation, Randa Wentbarten, had conflicted thoughts regarding the education department. (Photo: MSNBC screenshot)
Reading skills of American students still fall from the Pandemia Coid-19, while their mathematical skills have barely improved in the last two years, according to “National Reports,“National Establishment of Progress of Education 2024 published by the Education Department in January.
“Today’s NAEP results reveal a heart reality for US students and confirm our worst fears: not only that most students have not recovered from losing learning related to pandemi, but those students who have been the most and most of all support have lang the most support,” the statement said. “Despite the billions of dollars that the Federal Government invests in the education of K-12 per year and approximately $ 190 billion of federal pandemic funds, our education system continues to collapse to students across the country.”
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On Wednesday a statement, On the back, he said that the dismantling of the education department is “a move that most people in America do not want to because they will reduce the opportunity for students.”
Wentbarten suggested that he would sue Trump’s administration with a quote in a press release saying: “See you in court.”
